Import Multiple Business Contacts into an Account

Jeff · Joined: 13 Feb 2008 Posts: 3

I have an excel list of ~55 business contact. Just name and address.
I have an account already made to link to these contacts.

How do I import this excel list of names/addresses and map them to my
account?

In the excel list I have a header "Account" with the account name in the
below cells. I thought in the mapping process I would be able to map this
field to the ACCOUNT object but it seems to be missing.

Is there another way to do this, or did I miss something?

Thanks, Jeff

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Luther · Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 43

On Feb 17, 9:37 pm, "Jeff" wrote:
> I have an excel list of ~55 business contact. Just name and address.
> I have an account already made to link to these contacts.
>
> How do I import this excel list of names/addresses and map them to my
> account?
>
> In the excel list I have a header "Account" with the account name in the
> below cells. I thought in the mapping process I would be able to map this
> field to the ACCOUNT object but it seems to be missing.
>
> Is there another way to do this, or did I miss something?
>
> Thanks, Jeff

I don't think you are missing anything. There isn't a way to set the
parent of a Business Contact during an Excel import.

Jeff · Joined: 13 Feb 2008 Posts: 3

Thanks Luther.

I thought I found it but it didn't work. There was a "Parent Account" in the
list but it didn't work.
What a pain in the @$$. I got tired of searching for a way and just
manually went in to each contact and linked them to the account. Some @ MS
needs bonked in the head for that. (V Cool

.

"Luther" wrote in message @u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com...
> On Feb 17, 9:37 pm, "Jeff" wrote:
>> I have an excel list of ~55 business contact. Just name and address.
>> I have an account already made to link to these contacts.
>>
>> How do I import this excel list of names/addresses and map them to my
>> account?
>>
>> In the excel list I have a header "Account" with the account name in the
>> below cells. I thought in the mapping process I would be able to map this
>> field to the ACCOUNT object but it seems to be missing.
>>
>> Is there another way to do this, or did I miss something?
>>
>> Thanks, Jeff
>
> I don't think you are missing anything. There isn't a way to set the
> parent of a Business Contact during an Excel import.

Chris · Joined: 03 Feb 2008 Posts: 3

I guess I'm the one should be "bonked" for your not being able to
import your business contacts and linked account from Excel! We do
support importing linked accounts/business contacts from competitive
products, and the link is maintained. I'm not aware of anyone asking
for this before, from csv or Excel.

Still, it's a reasonable request, and one we'll consider for a future
release. In addition, another way we might ease your pain is to allow
you to import the 55 contacts, then assign all of them, in one
operation, to your one account. That would work, would it not?

Chris [msft]

Jeff · Joined: 13 Feb 2008 Posts: 3

Hi Chris,

If that is possible, I'm not aware of how to do it. I imported all the
business contacts from the excel list and they were unassigned (categories).
I tried to group assign them but was not able to figure out how to do it.

As for the mapping to Parent Account... I guess that isnt the same?

"Chris" wrote in message @h11g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> I guess I'm the one should be "bonked" for your not being able to
> import your business contacts and linked account from Excel! We do
> support importing linked accounts/business contacts from competitive
> products, and the link is maintained. I'm not aware of anyone asking
> for this before, from csv or Excel.
>
> Still, it's a reasonable request, and one we'll consider for a future
> release. In addition, another way we might ease your pain is to allow
> you to import the 55 contacts, then assign all of them, in one
> operation, to your one account. That would work, would it not?
>
> Chris [msft]

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