Import rat - company mapping

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Thursday, June 04, 2020 01:16 PM UTC
 
 

I'm getting rats when mapping companies. And then it loses the mappings. :( 

 

This CSV file does not have headers.

 

Short version: we just added smarter header handling that lets you put headers in any order, leave out optional fields, etc. And it will prevent you from uploading files without headers. But (as with many import issues), we haven't gone back to fix old imports.

 

Longer version: when I started working on imports, there was some header detection in place, but it was pretty wonky and never actually managed to detect header rows even though most files had them. So it just thought they were invalid import rows :)

 

We discussed the issue and decided to *assume* headers going forward (at least for a time). But we didn't really *require* them until the last update (which came *after* this file was uploaded).

 

Two main takeaways:

1. You can work around this error by downloading, adding the header row, and creating a new migration.

2. Recent imports without headers may have skipped the first row.

Ethan McCutchen.....2020-06-04 20:06:18 UTC