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Dear Friends,

Am doing an initial population - via import - of contact data into a CiviCRM installation (on Drupal, if it matters).

For many of our contacts, I have several email addresses and phone numbers.  However, I cannot find any way to 'map' these additional fields to contact data.  How to do this?

Many thanks in advance.

Yes, Kurund - I have several email addresses per contact, and - of course - 3 or 4 phone numbers per contact.

I can see that, in the contact data entry form, there are fields already there for 5 emails and 5 phone numbers.  But, when I try to import using a csv file, I cannot map to email2, email3, etc.  I.E., I cannot see any of those field names...  I do see the custom fields we've created no problem!  Weird!  Is there some option or function to activate to turn on 'supplemental' fields or similar?

Many thanks for any help.

Lobo -

Many thanks for your response on this - and your help in the past on other matters...

No, this is not super important for this particular body of data - I was just surprised that the 'native' data schema has these fields, but that I cannot import them.  This is for a contact, not for a location, if this matters.

OK, will approach another way...

Thanks, Xavier, I will look into this...

I don't unserstand quite how this would work; do you mean that the email2 or email3 field maps will suddenly appear if there is an email field already there?

I'll try this in a few hours to understand what you've suggested.  Thanks for the idea.

You may already have seen this, but I'm pretty sure you can import multiple emails from each row in your import file (i.e. each contact to be imported) by mapping them to different location "types". (When you select "Email" from the drop-down, you get to pick from your available Location Types.)

EXAMPLE:

Email - Home, Email - Work, Email - Other
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dave@home.org, dave@work.com, dave@other.net