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Best practice for phone number formatting?
June 06, 2013, 11:01:48 am
How should we format our phone numbers for import so as not to conflict with future CiviCRM auto-formatting of phone numbers? (described here: http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-11292)

That is, are we "safer" just importing our phone numbers as 1234567890 or would it be okay to import as 123-456-7890?

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Re: Best practice for phone number formatting?
June 06, 2013, 03:05:01 pm

i think either format should work. I suspect, we'll need to make things configurable and user-controlled before making any significant changes to the underlying db and/or output

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Re: Best practice for phone number formatting?
June 06, 2013, 06:18:52 pm
If you input with dashes, then you get to have it both ways. Civi will automatically strip them in the phone_numeric field, but keep them in the phone field.
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