Importing Excel Data to CMSB

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Last Post: July 2, 2008   (RSS)

By gkornbluth - July 1, 2008

Has anyone managed to import the data from an Excel spreadsheet into a CMSB database. Or from any other external data source?

I have a rather large membership spreadsheet that I'd like to be able to display on a CMSB web page.

Individual copy and paste is not a happy thought.

I was thinking of using a multirecord editor and implementing the "hidden" field to temporarily hide the information for members who were not in good standing.

Thanks

Jerry
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Re: [gkornbluth] Importing Excel Data to CMSB

By Jake - July 1, 2008

Hi Jerry,

I'd suggest taking a look at this forum post by Dave, which outlines what's involved in this process:

http://www.interactivetools.com/iforum/gforum.cgi?post=61373;search_string=csv;t=search_engine#61373

If you have any questions beyond what's covered there, let us know and we'll do our best to help you out!
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Re: [gkornbluth] Importing Excel Data to CMSB

By Dave - July 2, 2008

Hi Jerry,

Yea, the two options you'd be looking at would be using some external tool to get the data into MySQL, or have a custom program built to import the data.

Also, if possible it's much easier to have excel export a CSV file and then import that, because then the import program doesn't need to know how to read (any one of the multiple versions of) excel.

Hope that helps!
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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