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laborg

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Chance of getting a definable CSV-seperator?
March 06, 2008, 02:43:25 am
Hi!

Problem:
At the moment the import(and export) of CSV-files is limited to the "," seperator. Due to the fact that Excel uses ";" as immutable field-seperator in some European countries (for me: Austria) the import-function is not usefull by default.  Hacking all the MapField.php, Preview.php and Upload.php for all types of  imports (members, events...) isn't a very "clean" solution.

Possible solution:
Make a modifiable and global CSV-seperator. Could be set in Administer "CiviCRM -> Global Settings-> Localization".

Benefit:
A whole lot of European users could use the import function ...

I'm happy to see some response!
Gerhard

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Re: Chance of getting a definable CSV-seperator?
March 06, 2008, 04:21:27 am

can u post an issue for this. we'll fix it in v2.1

ensure that you mention both import and export :) also link to this forum post from the issue

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Re: Chance of getting a definable CSV-seperator?
March 06, 2008, 06:01:46 am
filed under:
http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-2809

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Re: Chance of getting a definable CSV-seperator?
March 06, 2008, 06:05:09 am
I implemented a trivial workaround a while ago, could you test see if it works on your side ?

http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-2810

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laborg

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Re: Chance of getting a definable CSV-seperator?
March 06, 2008, 08:30:12 am
Hi!

I didn't try the code but it looks reasonable. A drawback is that it's not helping with exporting CSV-files, so it's rather a hack than a viable solution for the future.

thx
Gerhard
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