First off, only the original import records will have legacy ids. Any records you have added since the original import won't have legacy ids. You can add fields to the the various import databases or you can import your new fields into the user fields and then after all the importing is done move them to their right places. We did that by putting all the user fields and the right fields on the custom layout screen so we could verify that it all worked. The creating new records or not is one of the check boxes during the import process. Are you really importing many values for one name, such as happens for payments? The names file doesn't support that. > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Petkewec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 3:34 PM > To: TechRocks Support > Subject: [support] Importing into names > > > Hi everyone! > I am trying to import a bunch of information into some new fields that I > have created. I thought that I would be able to use the Legacy ID number > as the number that ties the new information to the records that already > exist in ebase. When I try to import (I have to use the import function > in FileMaker Pro under the File menu since the ebase import function into > names does not show my newly created fields). I try to import and all it > does is create new records. I then tried to use the ebase import function > and use the USER FIELDS 6-10 (which I had not used yet) and it still would > put the new information onto the wrong records. I thought the Legacy ID > would take care of it like it do4s in the Payments import table so that > many payment records can go to one ebase names record. What could I be > doing wrong? Can you actually add information to records en mass later > using the Legacy ID in the Names table? > > Thanks! > Michael Petkewec, Director of Development > UW School of Drama > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 206/221-6797 > > ------------------ > Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to > http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and > enter the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase > support list:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------ Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and enter the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase support list:: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------
