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  • May 27, 2015 at 12:15 am #40763

    Josh Elledge
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    Happy to go full-tilt boogie with this plugin – but I could use help with importing. Currently, I cannot even import the exported sample content (even without opening the file locally). I keep getting:

    3 / 3 item(s) could not be added due to blank/invalid address(city, region, country, latitude, longitude).

    I’ve reviewed every bit of info on the subject – and have tried everything I can think of to get this to work.

    May 27, 2015 at 12:19 am #40764

    Josh Elledge
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    May 27, 2015 at 11:27 am #40782

    Simone
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    Hello Josh, and welcome on board.
    I tried to login but it won’t let me in, could you please check the login details? Thanks

    May 27, 2015 at 11:47 am #40786

    Josh Elledge
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    May 27, 2015 at 12:26 pm #40791

    Simone
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    Hello Josh, you had that error because you don’t have the MultiLocation addon, and your default city is Orlando, FL.
    In the sample CSV there are three listings, with three different cities in the US, the free GD plugin allows only one default city.
    I tried to upload a CSV with three different listings from the same city (Orlando) and it works as expected, attached you can find the sample .csv I used

    May 27, 2015 at 1:00 pm #40795

    Josh Elledge
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    Ahhh… I didn’t catch that. Thanks.

    May 28, 2015 at 1:55 am #40872

    Josh Elledge
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    If you don’t mind me asking a related question prior to purchase…

    How will a large bulk import likely work? I have 20k records. Another plugin I was trying would simply time out after 22 records. I could increase my timeout limit significantly – but this felt like a bad path as it would kill my server during the process – which I believed would last more than a day.

    May 28, 2015 at 2:52 am #40874

    Josh Elledge
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    May 28, 2015 at 11:48 am #40898

    Simone
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    Hi Josh, 20k records are quite a big number, I personally would split them in multiple files, it is easy, straightforward and quick to do 🙂
    I will check your .csv soon and get back at you asap.

    May 28, 2015 at 1:52 pm #40902

    Simone
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    Ok, here we are..

    issues:

    1- author mush have the ID, your id in this case is number 1
    2- custom fields should have appended geodir_ before the name, e.g., geodir_editor if the html variable name is “editor”, as in your case.
    3- most important: you had in your region, FL, which is wrong, the correct region name must be as set in the Location, Florida.

    May 28, 2015 at 1:53 pm #40903

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    June 2, 2015 at 8:31 pm #41350

    Josh Elledge
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    Hey – thank you so much for this. I want to test with a big file to see how it works – since getting 20K records into my database is mission critical. I’ll see how big of batches I can get away with. It looks like geodirectory handles imports different than the other plugin I tried that would simply time out after 22 records. 1000 import processes won’t work for me! 🙂

    June 2, 2015 at 9:01 pm #41356

    Paolo
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    I’ve imported files with over 20k listings on our dedicated server in one file.

    It really depends on your server’s resources, but I think that on any decent VPS, files with +5000 listings should be a problem.

    Our import is Ajax based, so it does 1 listings at a time to avoid time out problems…

    Let us know how you went!

    The import export feature is quite new and some fine tuning could still be nevessary.

    Thanks

    June 3, 2015 at 3:20 am #41387

    Josh Elledge
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    I love this and upgraded today. Thank you for the excellent support. Things are starting to look really good!

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