Re: Importing Customers, Vendors, Parts

["Roderick A. Anderson" <..hidden..>]

Paul Bente wrote:
> I have seen mention on this list of success in importing into LSMB  
> lists of customers, vendors, and parts from csv files, but not in a  
> form simple and detailed enough to for me to follow and succeed.
>
> I was able to get the sample file "lsmb02-cli-example.pl" in  
> ledgersmb/doc/samples to work apparently (it reported the 3 sample  
> records as SAVED, etc and when I log in the records are there) but it  
> then follows with about 40 lines reporting errors of the type:

I can't find this script with my install.  I didn't do my install from 
the tarball but a source RPM.  If you would forward it I'll take a look. 
 I see these kind of errors regularly in other stuff I deal with so 
should be able to figure it out.


Rod
ps: I'm a LedgerSMB developer wantabe (still working my way, as time 
permits, through the main code) so this would a way to do something 
useful now.

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> Use of uninitialized value in substr at importvendor.pl line 61,  
> <DATA> line 4.
> Use of uninitialized value in scalar assignment at importvendor.pl  
> line 130, <DATA> line 4.
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at  
> importvendor.pl line 61, <DATA> line 4.
> ...
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at  
> importvendor.pl line 86, <DATA> line 4.
> ...
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at  
> importvendor.pl line 61, <DATA> line 5.
> Use of uninitialized value in substr at importvendor.pl line 61,  
> <DATA> line 5.
> Use of uninitialized value in scalar assignment at importvendor.pl  
> line 130, <DATA> line 5.
> ...
>
> Any idea as to the source or significance of these errors or how I  
> might modify the script to eliminate them?
>
> I am also daunted by the prospect of editing the perl code in this  
> example to try to import parts.
>
> As an alternative to suggestions on how to get the above perl script  
> working, can anyone provide or point to a set of step by step  
> instructions for importing files of Parts and of Customers and  
> Vendors including if possible Ship To addresses?
>
> Regards,
> Paul Bente
> PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11, ledgersmb-1.2.14-rc1
>
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