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Contact Export Action...
April 13, 2011, 12:03:25 pm
Sorry for all the questions.

I'm trying to export some contacts. When I use the normal contact search the action to export brings up a workflow asking you to select fields. If I use the custom search which uses groups and tag and then export it just dumps a file out of the fields on screen but doesn't allow me to pick fields etc..

Is there any way of me pointing the export back at the standard export workflow in order to pick fields and de-dupe the addresses?

Cheers again,

Dave

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Re: Contact Export Action...
April 13, 2011, 12:59:24 pm

hey dave:

currently no. But this has come up with someone else very recently. Would be great if you can investigate and contribute a patch and/or help sponsor development of this feature. would definitely help the community. Is probably a 30-50 hour project

Another option is to add all the contacts to a group, then do a regular search on all contacts in that group and then export it. It does the same, but is multistep :)

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Re: Contact Export Action...
April 13, 2011, 03:00:02 pm
Thanks for checking!

I'll look into this in terms of code - a bit busy at the mo and still getting my head into this great application!

Thanks for the advice about the group thing - it's pretty much where I'd got to myself - managed to output it now.

Thanks,

Dave
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