What is the best approach to exports/backup contacts?

[issachartan]

Hi,

Would like to ask what is the best approach or practise to export/backup contacts?

cheers,
Issachar

[andopes]

You can Export from the Contacts List View and Import from Contacts Import feature.

Cheers

[issachartan]

You can Export from the Contacts List View and Import from Contacts Import feature.

Cheers

Thanks andopes. :-)

From your advice, i went to try it out and the contact + leads are exported.

Steps To Export Contacts

1. Click Contact.
2. Click View Contact.
3. Select All Contacts (or desired ones)
4. Click Action and Select Export.

cheers,
Issachar

[Gilneas]

I got a stupid additional question

Let's imagine that my system contains about thousands of contacts and the server is not able to display all of them before the browser returns a timeout.

How can I export all my contacts e.g. to import them once to another system.

[Caspar]

Hi All,
Is there any site from where beginners can get guidance about their problems and errors?
Sometimes I feel shy in publishing my problems.

Caspar.

[item]

Hi,
maybe : http://www.sugarcrm.com/university/
you have many link to wiki, blog, kb, guides.

For export, i have a problem :
when you export contacts, accounts or what you will, all is exported in CSV.
But all field with "carriage return" like description create a problem in the CSV file.

Maybe, it's because i am on Mac, i have not tried on windows.

Regards