4.0.5 beta address book import error

[grandpajim]

I have a contacts.csv file that I created with outlook 2003 and it imported fine in to 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 but in 4.0.5 beta it imports one 1 address (the 74th one) out of 366 addresses and give this error:

name - TypeError
message - 'null' is null or not an object
number - -2146823281
description - 'null' is null or not an object

Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jim...

[phoenix]

Is the csv file in the correct format? Have a look at this post for the details.

[grandpajim]

Originally Posted by phoenix

Is the csv file in the correct format?

I would have to assume it is since it imported just fine in to 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 unless the format changed and I didn't see that in the release notes.

Originally Posted by phoenix

Have a look at this post for the details.

Wow! thanks, but I can't imagine my 1.2 million accounts that we are going to have running in 3 months going through editing their outlook CSV export file to make it match those fields. Here are the fields outlook exports:

Title,First Name,Middle Name,Last Name,Suffix,Company,Department,Job Title,Business Street,Business Street 2,Business Street 3,Business City,Business State,Business Postal Code,Business Country,Home Street,Home Street 2,Home Street 3,Home City,Home State,Home Postal Code,Home Country,Other Street,Other Street 2,Other Street 3,Other City,Other State,Other Postal Code,Other Country,Assistant's Phone,Business Fax,Business Phone,Business Phone 2,Callback,Car Phone,Company Main Phone,Home Fax,Home Phone,Home Phone 2,ISDN,Mobile Phone,Other Fax,Other Phone,Pager,Primary Phone,Radio Phone,TTY/TDD Phone,Telex,Account,Anniversary,Assistant's Name,Billing Information,Birthday,Business Address PO Box,Categories,Children,Directory Server,E-mail Address,E-mail Type,E-mail Display Name,E-mail 2 Address,E-mail 2 Type,E-mail 2 Display Name,E-mail 3 Address,E-mail 3 Type,E-mail 3 Display Name,Gender,Government ID Number,Hobby,Home Address PO Box,Initials,Internet Free Busy,Keywords,Language,Location,Manager's Name,Mileage,Notes,Office Location,Organizational ID Number,Other Address PO Box,Priority,Private,Profession,Referred By,Sensitivity,Spouse,User 1,User 2,User 3,User 4,Web Page

Thanks,
Jim...

[cpharvey]

New installation of 4.5 Open Source edition shows the same error when importing from Outlook exported contacts in either dos or windows CSV format.

[grandpajim]

I opened http://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13583 for this on 1/9/2007
Jim...

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by cpharvey

New installation of 4.5 Open Source edition shows the same error when importing from Outlook exported contacts in either dos or windows CSV format.

Did you follow the instructions from here?

[cpharvey]

I certainly looked at the instructions but it isn't resolving the issue since the issues is not how can I structure and export to fit the zimbra import, but more, why doesn't the zimbra import handle the default Outlook export format.

In other words, I shouldn't need to mess around with the export format to make it work for Zimbra. The field mappings should simply be correct for a default OL export.

This is especially true since it appears it used to work in older versions but broke in 4.5

[phoenix]

Well, if changing the format of your csv file isn't the answer then vote for the bug and add your problem details to the report. Posting here doesn't make any difference to the development or problem resolution of the product.