Thanks for the reply and the tip, Dennis. Rick
> -----Original Message----- > From: Dennis Powers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 7:09 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Need some procedural / technical advice... > > >> "I looked at the data and found what looked > >> like Chinese characters in some of the fields that caused errors. > > >> However, they just provide scripts to build > >> tables and tab-delimited text data files. > > Automated imports relay on clean properly formatted data or else a larger > amount of error checking plus human intervention. > > We ran into this with a client that was receiving used car data via FTP. > Since we couldn't anticipate every error that was submitted and often times > although the data was formatted correctly it was incorrect (example: "Color: > 4Wheel Drive") we fixed what we could but left the final choice to the user. > > > Best Regards, > > Dennis Powers > UXB Internet - A website design and Hosting Company > 690 Wolcott Road > P.O. Box 6029 > Wolcott, CT 06716 > Tel: (203)879-2844 > http://www.uxbinternet.com/ > http://www.uxb.net/ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:298511 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4

