http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5379 --- Comment #14 from Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger@foundations.edu> 2010-11-16 14:55:46 UTC --- The problem is most certainly due to poorly worded help. According to RFC-4180: If double-quotes are used to enclose fields, then a double-quote appearing inside a field must be escaped by preceding it with another double quote. For example: "aaa","b""bb","ccc" We are essentially embedding a CSV inside of a single field of another CSV, so we must properly escape our double quotes. This means in a plain text editor our patron attribute field should follow this form: """ATTRIB_1:VALUE_1"",""ATTRIB_2:VALUE_2"",""ATTRIB_3:VALUE_3"",... ""ATTRIB_N:VALUE_N""" In a spreadsheet editor this would be: ""ATTRIB_1:VALUE_1"",""ATTRIB_2:VALUE_2"",""ATTRIB_3:VALUE_3"",... ""ATTRIB_N:VALUE_N"" My testing shows that this syntax works. NOTE: Excel *does not* double quote fields afaict, so it may be necessary to follow the first example when using Excel. This needs to be tested. I will follow up with a patch to clarify the help in this tool. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.