[Baldwin]

Can I import family type records through CSV import? If so, how do I show relationships (e.g. Jones Family, Bob – Spouse, Nancy – Spouse).

[Steven Zahm]

@ Ze’ev Ionis

Sorry, no, Families can not be imported. Only the individuals. After you import the individuals you can then create the families.

Hope that helps!

[Baldwin]

I would like to request this as a new feature. while it is easy to create families when manually entering individuals, it is difficult when using the CSV import to create many directory entries at once.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Ze’ev Ionis

I have added this to my feature request list. The only way I can see this being possible is as a second CSV import because all individuals would need to exist first and the second CSV file would have to contain the entry ID/s of the individual family members so they could properly be created. Honestly not sure which would actually be faster manually creating the families after import of the individuals or creating a CSV file with the required entry ID/s so they can be imported. Either would be quite a bit of work.

[Pete]

I have had luck importing Familys as Organizations. And then when I go in to manually assign the family members I first switch the organization to family.

The importer worked for organizations but not familys.

[Peter]

Ummm… Loop through the records and create an array of Families and an array of Individuals. If there are Families create them so the ID’s exist. Then loop through the Individuals.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Peter

Looping thru is not really possible. The CSV file is chucked and those chunks are imported one at a time. Looping thru a CSV file which could contain tens of thousands or more would crush most inexpensive shared hosts.

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