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jamie

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Import date created and/or date modified?
April 15, 2009, 07:50:21 am
We're importing thousands of contacts from a previous database that recorded the date modified and date created. These are available in our CSV file, but I don't see a way to map those fields to a corresponding field in CiviCRM during the import process. I imagine it's because CiviCRM is using a different system for logging this info (via the civicrm_log table). Does anyone have suggestions for how to preserve this information duing the import? Any post import scripts that we could run?

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Re: Import date created and/or date modified?
April 15, 2009, 08:09:07 am
Currently I don't think you can map date modified and created suing Import. There is also no interface for modifying these dates.

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Re: Import date created and/or date modified?
April 15, 2009, 08:38:23 am
Thanks Kurund for the quick response!

Would you for see any problems if I were to run a script after the import that iterates over the original CSV file, looks up the assigned contact_id (based on the External ID imported), and then manually updates the civicrm_log table with two records (one for the date created and one for the last modified)?

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Re: Import date created and/or date modified?
April 15, 2009, 09:40:23 am

jamie:

that will work quite nicely and fits our model of recording change date/time

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