Amicus 2008 - Importing Contacts

Here are several things I have learned

• Use a tab delimited file instead of a csv.  Tab seems to work all of the time, where csv is less reliable.

 

• Don't import more then 1000 contacts at a time.  I tried to do 5000 at once and it made it to 4100 and stopped cause of an error.  It was a pain in the neck to go back.  On my next install I broke my file down into groups of 1000.  It was much easier to manage.

 

• There is no hour glass so all you will see is:

Actually this message sits behind an Amicus Window.  You just have to wait it out.  The task manger is not that reliable for this, so again wait it out.  If you break it down into 1000's it should not take over an hour. 

Comments

[PDR]

Well, it shouldn't take an hour if you're on a decent computer. Several of the law offices I work with use computers from late 1990's.

The "no completion bar/status indicator" is an important feature. Most users will start clicking the mouse and hitting buttons to make a program faster. Knowing ahead of time that it doesn't tell you how much time is left is a very important tidbit.

- PDR