[Archivesspace_Users_Group] FileMakePro to ArchivesSpace migration

[Peter MacDonald]

Thanks Chris:

I'm willing to customize the CSV importer. How do I access the importer
configuration settings or code?

Peter MacDonald

Peter MacDonald
Library Information Systems Specialist
Hamilton College Library
315 859-4493
Skype: pmacdona-hamilton

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 4:08 AM, Chris Fitzpatrick <
Chris.Fitzpatrick at lyrasis.org> wrote:

>
>  Hi Peter,
>
>
>  Hm, well the  problem is you can't have line breaks in a CSV file,
> because that would make a new row in the CSV.
>
>
>  The fix would probably be to convert the FMPro line breaks into
> something like a vertical line bar then customize the CSV importer to
> convert vertical bars into line breaks.
>
>
>  Does that make sense?
>
>
>  b,chris.
>
>
>   Chris Fitzpatrick | Developer, ArchivesSpace
> Skype: chrisfitzpat  | Phone: 918.236.6048
> http://archivesspace.org/
>    ------------------------------
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> Peter MacDonald <pmacdona at hamilton.edu>
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 8, 2015 5:46 PM
> *To:* Archivesspace_Users_Group at lyralists.lyrasis.org
> *Subject:* [Archivesspace_Users_Group] FileMakePro to ArchivesSpace
> migration
>
>   I have managed to design a procedure to import FMPro date into AS
> through CSV import.
>
>  But I'm not sure how to handle carriage returns within fields in the
> FMPro data.
>
>  Do I need to remove them all before importing? If I don't remove them,
> they end up in AS represented as a weird-looking HEX character. Is that
> okay to leave these in or should I remove all these carriage returns before
> importing the CSV file?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
>  Peter MacDonald
> Library Information Systems Specialist
> Hamilton College Library
> 315 859-4493
> Skype: pmacdona-hamilton
>
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