[Vtigercrm-developers] Importing records

[Richard Hills - Technologywise]

This is sound advice, though I will also mention that I have had success 
with imports of this size from CSV files. I always try the built in 
import functionality before resorting to scripts.

On 21/07/15 22:39, Alan Lord wrote:
> On 21/07/15 11:23, ardi zeneli wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have to import nearly 1 milion records in vTiger which are divided in
>> almost 500 excel files. Can anybody tell me which would be the best way
>> to do this import?
>
> I would use the server APIs and create new objects iterating over your 
> spreadsheet. With that many I would write a "wrapper" script which 
> breaks into manageable chunks (say 5000 at a time) so you can resume 
> more easily if something goes wrong after 250,000 imports ;-)
>
> Al
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