Importing Address Book

You can import addresses from a CSV file to the Address Book.
To import Address Book, do the following:

  1. Open the Address Book.

  2. Select the Import tab to import the records stored in a CSV file to the corresponding fields of Personal and Global Address Book.

Note: Before importing addresses from a CSV file to Address Book, change your Internet Explorer settings .
Make the following selections on the Import tab:

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Select Address Book Type

Select the address book where you want to export the the field values. You can select either Personal or Global Address Book. Corporate Address Book is read-only.

Please specify a file to import

Click Browse to select a CSV file that contains data to be imported.

UPLOAD

Click UPLOAD to upload the selected CSV file.

Fields available in Imported file

Map the CSV file fields (as these appear in the header) with that of the Address Book fields. Mapping enables proper data import into the address book. You can map a field in the CSV file with more than one address book fields.

IMPORT

Click IMPORT to import the records from the CSV file to the mapped address book fields. The Import utility validates that the CSV records contain data corresponding to all the mandatory fields of the address book. If any of the records contain a blank corresponding to any mandatory address book field or if the data of any field in the CSV file is greater than that can be stored in the data archive, then such records are flagged as errors. Click on hyperlink 'Click' in error message to view the details of addresses not imported in CSV file format.
If duplicate records are found during the import, then the application allows importing duplicate addresses by adding a randomly generated number at the end of "Customer Code" field to maintain uniqueness of addresses in address book.

RESET

Click RESET to reset field values to default values.