new user trying to import data from csv

[Robby Stephenson]

Hi Richard,

This list is entirely appropriate. It's low usage, but generally good for
any questions users have.

On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 5:35 PM Richard Lyons <richard at lyons.art.br> wrote:

> I just installed tellico, it is version 3.4.6 on Debian 12. I did this
> in order to set up a register of artworks. I have a csv table imported
> from elsewhere with 33 fields and about 80 entries (lines). Importing is
> a bit unintuitive, at first I did not realise I had to create all the
> fields manually before importing. Having done that, I imported teh csv,
> but only the first field is imported (perhaps because it happened to be
> selected when I did the import.
>
> The whole file is obviously read, because it is all shown in preview,
> but I cannot see how to import the other fields, even one by one. Have I
> missed something obvious? (I frequently do!)
>

My first thought is that you didn't assign a field to each column. The
preview should have field titles in the header, as you assign to each
column.
https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/tellico/tellico/importing.html#importing-csv

Robby
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