Importing Templates

The Contact Import Wizard gives you the opportunity to save it’s settings into a template that can be used in the future. The next time you need to run that import, you can load the import settings from the import template, rather than having to re-do all the settings again.

Saving Templates

After you have entered all the settings into the import wizard, you may want to save these settings to a template so that the next time you do this import, you will not have to re-do the settings. You save the settings to a template by selecting the [Save Import Settings to Template] button on Options tab of the Contact Import Wizard, and then specify a file name for the template.

Loading Templates

When starting the Contact Import Wizard, there is an option to load the wizard with settings from a template that was previously created. After loading a template, you will only need to click on the [Start Import] button and the import process will begin using the settings from the template.

Advanced Template Information

The template data is stored in the SystemSettings table under the SectionName="Contact Import Templates".  A new EventViewer record will be written under the category of "ContactImport" to log the results of the import.  To transfer the Contact Import template settings to a different install, you can go into the Settings Manager and right click on an import template and choose Copy SET command. For more details see the documentation on the Settings Manager.