Import Organization Contact Address

This feature allows for the importing of Organization Contact Address information into the Unanet system. If your intention is to update Contact Address data, you will want to check the box "First purge addresses for the Organization Contact" on the import screen. Upon import of the file, this setting will delete existing contact addresses and will add the new values.

When attempting to Add or Delete existing entries via this import, the system will attempt to match a contact based on the following combination of fields:

Organization_Code
First_Name
Middle_Initial
Last_Name
Suffix

When processing individual records:

On Add -- if an existing matching record is found, an error message will be displayed (to prevent a duplicate entry).
On Delete -- if an existing matching record is not found, an error message will be displayed.

When the contact address is used elsewhere in the system, all fields are concatenated such that you cannot tell if the data is all stored in Street_Address3 or if it is spread across all fields. Only via the Organization Contact Address Export and the Organization Contact Address edit screen can you determine the specific fields in which the contact address values are stored. There is minimal validation on the fields in this import.

Roles

This screen is available to users having any of the following roles: Administrator, and P&R Administrator.

License

This feature is available with any Unanet edition.

Performance Tip Note: Depending on the number of users in your installation and other factors such as the overall performance of your platform, the activity of importing one or many files may take up to several minutes. Should this be the case with your installation, you may want to consider running these processes at non-peak times to minimize database contention.

Topics covered on this help page include:

Import File Record Layout (field by field descriptions)
Import File Format (note about csv layout and option to import a subset of columns using header values)
Excel Template (spreadsheet template containing column headings)
Import Screen (invoking the import via the user interface)

Import File Record Layout

IMPORTANT: Note that there are multiple places within this documentation that say you MUST use double quotes for the strings in your import. If you are working in Excel, Excel will provide the double quotes and thus you do not need to add them in manually. Manually adding double quotes within Excel would result in multiple sets of double quotes in the resulting .csv file and thus cause an error (should you attempt to import that resulting file). Please see Excel Tips for more information.

		Field Header Name	Required/Comments
1	A	Organization_Code	ALWAYS REQUIRED. This code uniquely identifies the Organization to which the contact address belongs. This value must match an existing Organization Code value defined in your system. If the Organization to which you are trying to import does not already exist in the database, the entire record will be rejected.
2	B	First_Name	ALWAYS REQUIRED. This is a person's first name. Maximum Length: 50 characters
3	C	Middle_Initial	This is the person's middle initial. Maximum Length: 1 character
4	D	Last_Name	ALWAYS REQUIRED. This is a person's last name. Maximum Length: 50 characters
5	E	Suffix	This is a person's suffix. Maximum Length: 10 characters
6	F	Address_Type	REQUIRED ON ADD. Valid values are: Business Home Mailing Other
7	G	Primary_Ind	Valid values include Y or N (if not provided, N is the default). A value of "Y" will indicate this is the primary organization contact address. Only one Contact Address can be defined as the Primary address for the current contact, and as such, when designating the current address as the new Primary the system will remove that designation from any other address for the current Contact that previously held that designation.
8	H	Street_Address1	CONDITIONALLY REQUIRED. First line of the address. Maximum Length: 255 characters When inserting a new address, a value must be present in at least one of the three Street_Address fields (i.e. Street_Address1, Street_Address2, Street_Address3)
9	I	Street_Address2	Second line of the address. Maximum Length: 255 characters
10	J	Street_Address3	Third line of the address. Maximum Length: 2000 characters
11	K	City	The city of the address. Maximum Length: 60 characters
12	L	State_Province	The state or province of the address. Maximum Length: 60 characters
13	M	Postal_Code	The postal code of the address. Maximum Length: 16 characters
14	N	Country	The country of the address. Maximum Length: 60 characters
15	O	Delete	This field can be used to trigger the system to delete one (or many) Organization Contact Addresses. In order for the delete to happen, you must include the following text string !DELETE! in this field. The system will first ensure it can find an organization contact based on the following provided fields. If not matching contact is found, an error will be displayed. Organization_Code First_Name Middle_Initial (can be blank) Last_Name Suffix (can be blank) Having found a matching contact, the system will then attempt to remove any organization contact addresses matching the following provided fields (for the specific organization contact): Address_Type Primary_Ind Street_Address1 Street_Address2 Street_Address3 City State_Province Postal_Code Country For any of these fields not provided in the input file, they will not be included in the searching / matching. For example, if you were to provide a record that included Organization_Code, First_Name, Last_Name and the Delete indicator only, all existing Organization Contact Addresses for that individual would be removed.

Note: Check out the Unanet Data model for specific field data types, lengths, and other attributes.

Import File Format

The file to import must be saved in a comma delimited format. The fields can be enclosed in double quotes -- which would be particularly necessary should the data being imported contain commas.

Importing a Sub-Set of Columns using a Field Header Record

If you are not using the default column layout sequence as defined above, you must include a header record (prefixed with an asterisk *), containing the column Header Names for those columns you are including in the import file (to indicated what data is contained in each column). The specific Header Names for each column are listed in the table above.

Example:

*Organization_Code,First_Name,Last_Name,Delete
org1,Bob,Johnson,!DELETE!

Excel Template

You can create the comma delimited import file with any number of tools. For those interested in using an Excel spreadsheet to create the file, you can download an Excel Template with predefined headers and required fields noted.

See the Excel Tips regarding the use of double quotes and more.

Import Screen

The Import Organization Contact Address screen simply looks like:

Field Descriptions:

Field	Description
Type of Import	Select the appropriate import type from the list of available types of imports.
File to Import	Enter (or browse for) the file that you would like to import.
Output Options	Specify the level of detail included in the output.
Contact Address	When this option is checked, as the system encounters each new Organization Contact based on the values provided in the following 5 fields, any existing Organization Contact Address entries for this contact will be removed before processing the records in the file. Organization_Code First_Name Middle_Initial (can be blank) Last_Name Suffix (can be blank)

The import process is triggered by pressing the Import button. All Warnings and Error messages are written to the screen and can then be saved if desired. While some line items may be found invalid and rejected, the remaining line items will be successfully imported and saved in the database. The rejected line items will be written out to a file on the Unanet server as well as displayed at the bottom of the user feedback screen. The rejected record file name will be UnanetOrganizationContactAddressImportErrorxxx, where xxx is a randomly generated number. The file will be placed in the Unanet temporary directory (which is defined by the Temp Directory (Fully Qualified Directory Name) (unanet.temp_directory) Unanet property).