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do not find matching field
July 04, 2012, 01:58:09 am
Dear community,

I am about to import contacts to CiviCRM.
But in the drop down menu there is missing the field "employer" - why?

Thanks in advance,
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Re: do not find matching field
July 04, 2012, 02:16:08 am
Check importing relations:

http://book.civicrm.org/user/common-workflows/importing-data

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Re: do not find matching field
July 04, 2012, 02:27:47 am
thank you for the quick reply. But I didn't find a solution to my problem in the text.

In my drop down list is no line with anything like employer - do I have to chagne the settings of the fiel before I can import data?

Sorry - best,
Linda

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Re: do not find matching field
July 04, 2012, 02:58:48 am
After - related contact info - you should have "Employee of". This can be used to create relationship between Individual and Employee

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Re: do not find matching field
July 04, 2012, 03:07:00 am
Sorry, I guess I used the wrong word (I'm German) :-(

The field I do not find is maybe called "company" in English - ("Aktueller Arbeitgeber") - I'm talking about the field right under First Name, last name,... fields.

I was able to match all my columns to something in the drop down list - except for "company" - and I am just completely stumped why it does not appear in the drop down list.

Sorry for the missunderstanding and thanks!


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Re: do not find matching field
July 04, 2012, 02:30:49 pm
i think it translates to 'current employer'

you should see a section of fields at the bottom under - RELATED CONTACT INFO -

you would then set your column of 'company' against 'current employee' then another set of fields will magically expand and you would want to select 'organisation name'

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Re: do not find matching field
July 05, 2012, 07:10:32 am
Hi there,

great, worked! Thank you for your patience. I guess you just explained the same thing Kurundu already tried to explain to me. But I was just so fixated on finding sth like comany, empolyer, etc that I didn't think of this solution.

Thanks once again!

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Linda

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Re: do not find matching field
July 05, 2012, 12:58:42 pm
Cool - glad it helped - this comes up a fair bit so thought a screenshot might help. You can help pay this back by spotting other such requests and pointing them here ;-)
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Re: do not find matching field
July 09, 2012, 12:42:59 am
will do so! Thx

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Linda
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