create new customer & company entries from excel sheet

hi all,

every company has a record and so does every customer. I have an excel sheet with columns of info. anyway i can create the records for customer and companies from this excel sheet?

thanks

Hi Saf,

You can use ODBC from Excel to update NAV.

But it might not be the best option. I would like to hear what record you talk about and what information you’re trying to update.

yes i hav an excel sheet with columns such as company name address telephone etc…

I wonder how to create new records for this (and avoid overwriting existing ones!)

saf

TITLE
COMPANY
COMPANY2
ADDRESS
ADDRESS2
CITY

LASTNAME

FIRSTNAME

TITLE

COMPANY

COMPANY2

ADDRESS

ADDRESS2

CITY

STATE

ZIPCODE

COUNTRY

PHONE

FAX

EMAIL

BUSINESS

BOTHER

PRODUCTS_1

PRODUCTS_2

PRODUCTS_3

PRODUCTS_4

PRODUCTS_5

PRODUCTS_6

PRODUCTS_7

PRODUCTS_8

PRODUCTS_9

PRODUCTS_10

PRODUCTS_11

PRODUCTS_12

PRODUCTS_13

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PRODUCTS_15

PRODUCTS_16

PRODUCTS_17

POTHER

INFLUENC

FIRSTTIM

LASTNAME

FIRSTNAME

TITLE

COMPANY

COMPANY2

ADDRESS

ADDRESS2

CITY

STATE

ZIPCODE

COUNTRY

PHONE

FAX

EMAIL

BUSINESS

BOTHER

PRODUCTS_1

PRODUCTS_2

PRODUCTS_3

PRODUCTS_4

PRODUCTS_5

PRODUCTS_6

PRODUCTS_7

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POTHER

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FIRSTNAME

TITLE

COMPANY

COMPANY2

ADDRESS

ADDRESS2

CITY

STATE

ZIPCODE

COUNTRY

PHONE

FAX

EMAIL

BUSINESS

BOTHER

PRODUCTS_1

PRODUCTS_2

PRODUCTS_3

PRODUCTS_4

PRODUCTS_5

PRODUCTS_6

PRODUCTS_7

PRODUCTS_8

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PRODUCTS_16

PRODUCTS_17

POTHER

INFLUENC

FIRSTTIM

LASTNAME

FIRSTNAME

TITLE

COMPANY

COMPANY2

ADDRESS

ADDRESS2

CITY

STATE

ZIPCODE

COUNTRY

PHONE

FAX

EMAIL

BUSINESS

BOTHER

PRODUCTS_1

PRODUCTS_2

PRODUCTS_3

PRODUCTS_4

PRODUCTS_5

PRODUCTS_6

PRODUCTS_7

PRODUCTS_8

PRODUCTS_9

PRODUCTS_10

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PRODUCTS_14

PRODUCTS_15

PRODUCTS_16

PRODUCTS_17

POTHER

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FIRSTTIM

LASTNAME

FIRSTNAME

TITLE

COMPANY

COMPANY2

ADDRESS

ADDRESS2

CITY

STATE

ZIPCODE

COUNTRY

PHONE

FAX

EMAIL

BUSINESS

BOTHER

PRODUCTS_1

PRODUCTS_2

PRODUCTS_3

PRODUCTS_4

PRODUCTS_5

PRODUCTS_6

PRODUCTS_7

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FIRSTNAME

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ADDRESS

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CITY

STATE

ZIPCODE

COUNTRY

PHONE

FAX

EMAIL

BUSINESS

BOTHER

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PRODUCTS_3

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FIRSTTIM



ceate a bew table and import the excel data into this table. Make sure the table contains the company name of each record. Now write a codeunit to read the data from this table and accordingly update the customer table. In the codeunit you can check the current company and the name of the company in the table. I think you to do this in all the companies you have or otherwise see if CHANGECOMPANY property can help you or not…