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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Thanks, Brian!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">From: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black"><archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org> on behalf of Brian Thomas <bthomas@tsl.texas.gov><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>Archivesspace Users Group <archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 3:21 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Archivesspace Users Group <archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] CSV question<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D">Jacqueline,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D">While I don’t know the answer to this directly from the program standpoint, Ido know that if you create the file in excel and save as a csv it should do the proper method
automatically. I believe my tests of the csv upload was with the “” option in the file. However excel does it automatically works just fine.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D">Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D">Brian Thomas</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D">Electronic Records Specialist</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D">Austin, TX 78701</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D">PH: (512) 475-3374</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D">e-mail:
<a href="bthomas@tsl.texas.gov"><span style="color:blue">bthomas@tsl.texas.gov</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Rider, Jacqueline<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 13, 2016 1:30 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Archivesspace_Users_Group] CSV question</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas">When importing a CSV file of accession records, if a given value itself</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas">contains a comma (as is especially common for descriptive text fields),</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas">how should the internal comma be escaped? One common way to do this is to</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas">use a backslash immediately before the comma, for example:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas">accession_acquisition_type,accession_title,accession_use_restrictions, ...</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Gift,Horace T. Allen\, Jr. Collection,FALSE, ...</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Another common method is to wrap the value in quotation marks, for example:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas">accession_acquisition_type,accession_title,accession_use_restrictions, ...</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Which of these (or some other technique) does the accession CSV importer</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Jackie Rider</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Jacqueline Rider</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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