I have searched through these faq pages bust cannot get a straight answer to my problem. I have contacts in one openerp 7 db. I want to export them so I can use them in another openerp db. I have enabled users to export via csv etc
So I select mesaging, contacts and I click on list view which allows me to select export under "more". I am now presented with 50 zillion fields to select. So I select all and "add" them. I select the Import compatible function ... I then export to a file.
If I now import this csv file I can not get it to validate. It imports 0.000%
SO: Must I go and select only certain fields? must we re-enter all our contacts? Any advice please.
When you try to validate do you get a specific message? What is this message. "I can not get it to validate" doesn't provide much information for people to help you.
Thanks for the reply. What I discovered is that when i select all the fields (as I said in my post), and then export them, there are columns containing id values from the database. When you now import those , they do not match with the new database structure it would seem and then you get the response I mentioned. If people simply repeat the process I am certain every instance of openerp in the world will produce exactly the same response. But that is not the issue. How do you export all your contacts, and then import them to another instance of openerp?
"and then you get the response I mentioned" - what does this mean? "I cannot get it to validate" - what does this mean? Do you get an error message?
...... How do you export all your contacts and re-import them to a different instance of openerp?