Newbie - Importing Leads from a CSV File

[Matt Moreau]

I'm unable to successfully import my entire list of leads from a CSV file. One issue is that several of my leads either have missing or incomplete information, such as incomplete email addresses, missing telephone numbers, etc. Secondly, several of my leads have duplicate information such as similar industries (ie. banking, finance, healthcare) etc. How can I import the entire file regardless of the missing or duplicated information?

Any suggestions?

Matt

[roblaus]

Hi,

You always can import empty or even wrong fields, the import mechanism is fairly forgiving. I believe that your problem is the memory setting in your php.ini. There are several threads here that suggest to set it to 350M in order to carry out imports successfully.

memory_limit = 350M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (8MB)

under "Resource limits'

rgds
rl

[MilSp3c]

To my knowledge, i believe the only "required" field is the last name field. If this field is left blank, Sugar skips that record. Also note, that when manually editing a contact, this is the only restrictuin you have.

Regards

[Matt Moreau]

Thanks. I had increased the memory_limit = 350M and my CSV import was successful.

Matt