visgro

Yes, I did download the sample .csv file. And I found it odd that the sample file only contained first names, not first name, last name. Now I understand why. Because, when importing a .csv file of contacts containing first name and last name (like all contacts) your plugin is apparently not capable of retaining the formula from Excel where sorting is done by last name. It actually changes the order and alphabetizes by first name.

I suppose one could have names supported by last name, but they would have to appear:

Lastname, Firstname

and that’s not acceptable for most, certainly not for me.

I hope you will consider adding this very basic functionality in a future release, as not being able to maintain names in alphabetical order from a .csv file severely limits the usefulness of the plugin. Might be useful for those who want to type in the names one-by-one. I have to be able to use .csv import for lists of hundreds of names, while not losing the structure and order maintained in Excel.

I’m moving on to a better solution.

Thank you.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by visgro.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by visgro.

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Look forward to seeing Duplicator evolve. Keep up the good work.

Thanks.