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Mass import of previous events
July 25, 2014, 02:34:56 am
We have just imported our database of contacts into our CiviCRM install (some 30k). Each person we know from a 'source' - which is most often an event (~700 uniques). I found that I can import participants, once the events have been added.

Is there a way to mass import the previous (~700) events? I only have a title of the event, but could make up a date, type and status I guess. Doing this import manually would be a big pain...

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Re: Mass import of previous events
July 28, 2014, 07:06:01 am
Hey there,

You can't import events via the UI, I am afraid.

If you have command line access, ane workaround I am aware of is the following

Have a look at https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/blob/master/bin/csv/import.php and https://civicrm.org/blogs/xavier/api_batch_tools

The blog post should give you good background, and the github link the latest syntax.

Not sure how techy you are / if this is the kind of answer you are looking for, but hopefully it helps you.



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Re: Mass import of previous events
July 28, 2014, 07:32:14 am
Also, this Extension may be helpful: https://civicrm.org/extensions/api-csv-import-gui

In case you use the extension, I would appreciate a short feedback on how it went as we may need to do a similar task soon ourself :)

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Re: Mass import of previous events
July 28, 2014, 08:21:49 am
Wowser - that extension slipped me by (and it looks v. cool) :)
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Re: Mass import of previous events
August 04, 2014, 11:54:46 am
I found that use of a PHPMyAdmin tool allows you to easily import simple event information via CSV such as: start date, title, etc into the civicrm_event table within the CiviCRM database.
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