I've used the new data import tool quite a bit, and have not run into show stoppers yet. My version 7.5 patch 4. You can just type the character string without quotes in the field mapping, it does work.
Guillaume ________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [[email protected]] on behalf of Rick Cook [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 10:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: New Data Import tool ** No - just the string. The tool should take care of formatting text for its own use. Rick On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:50 AM, jham36 <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Do you need to put your text string in double quotes? I have not tried it myself. James On Jul 9, 10:19 am, Roger Justice <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > I have done a lot of importing and have hard coded character fields and did > not encounter the problem you are having. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Cook <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > To: arslist <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Sent: Fri, Jul 9, 2010 7:49 am > Subject: New Data Import tool > > ** I am using this for the first time, and I don't like it. In addition to > it taking longer to map fields, it refuses to both accept a text string into > the Character field AND log why it won't. It just gives a popup asking me to > confirm that it is skipping each record with a message "Record <number>: For > input string: <contents of field 1>". Anyone seen this behavior and gotten > past it? > > Rick > _attend WWRUG10www.wwrug.comARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > ____ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives > atwww.arslist.org<http://atwww.arslist.org> > attend wwrug10www.wwrug.comARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org<http://www.arslist.org> attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com<http://www.wwrug.com> ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" _attend WWRUG10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
