IMPORTING RECORDS FROM A FILEMAKER PRO? FILE
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BRIEF TUTORIAL ON IMPORTING RECORDS FROM A FILEMAKER PRO? FILE
Our goal: create a wp site of our library transforming the FMPro records into .csv files and then WP posts.
Starting point: an archive of more than 30.000 book records, saved as FileMakerPro? (.fp7) file.1) Formatting the fields to be exported. For example, a record having:
Author
book’s title
edition
internal “physical” code (“where is this book”?),
and the Unique Identifier (UI) for WPAllImport.
Some more words about the UI. If you don’t indicate this UI, the plugin could skip importing some records. Simply, in FileMaker you can create a field with the progressive number of the records. This will be your UI, and the plugin will import all your records.
In FileMaker, you can add html code if you need some in WP, i.e. adding <b>,<p>,<i> and so on, WP will understand the code and format your posts as you like. Then, export your records as .csv (do not open it with Excel or other monstrous programs, simply save it maybe using UTF-8 coding, that’s all).2) in WPAllImport, follow the official Guide: you’ll link the field Title (“column 1”), the infos in the body (“column 2), taxonomy and so on, except the field with your UI, which you will finally drag in its position ONLY in step 4, where you won’t use “Auto-detect”.
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