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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://forums.method.me/cs/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Method:Classic General Q&amp;amp;A</title><link>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/13.aspx</link><description>Ask technical support questions, how do I? Questions... Or anything else you want to know from the Method Team and other Method users.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007.1 SP2 (Build: 31113.47)</generator><item><title>Re: Importing Activties from a different CRM into MethodCRM</title><link>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/19635.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:21:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3393c1ec-311b-4812-96cb-ad8c611bba4f:19635</guid><dc:creator>Method_Jason</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/19635.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=19635</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="mce_0_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;Hi Jeff,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Although it&amp;#39;s&lt;span id="mce_12_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; possible to import activities&lt;span id="mce_10_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;through the &lt;span id="mce_14_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Activity&lt;span id="mce_14_end" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; table, we generally do not recommend it.&lt;span id="mce_7_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt; Activities are heavily linked throughout the entire &lt;span id="mce_22_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;CRM to many other tables and fields&lt;span id="mce_20_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; making this a daunting task. If you do go ahead and try to import activities, I would recommend exporting the &lt;span id="mce_23_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;Activity&lt;span id="mce_23_end" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; table from Method first, and using the same headers that Method uses. This will help to ensure that the fields are mapped correctly. I also recomm&lt;span id="mce_35_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;end doing heavy testing &lt;span id="mce_26_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;by importing small batches of activities to see how they look in Method&amp;nbsp;before you import a large batch.&lt;span id="mce_34_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt; This way, you can just delete the small batch of imported activities if they are imported incorrectly.&lt;span id="mce_37_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_38_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="mce_7_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_26_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_27_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.methodintegration.com/method/kb.aspx?folder=MethodCRM&amp;amp;article=Import-%2f-Export&amp;amp;id=189"&gt;Click here&lt;span id="mce_28_end" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for an article and a series of tutori&lt;span id="mce_39_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;al video&lt;span id="mce_41_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;s that will teach you about imp&lt;span id="mce_43_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;orting and exporting. Hope this helps!&lt;span id="mce_33_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_40_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_32_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_42_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Jason&lt;span id="mce_44_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Importing Activties from a different CRM into MethodCRM</title><link>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/19619.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:05:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3393c1ec-311b-4812-96cb-ad8c611bba4f:19619</guid><dc:creator>JPW</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/19619.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=19619</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="mce_0_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;I am about to&amp;nbsp;import many contact logs (The equivalent to Method Activitites) into Method and I would like to know the correct table and &lt;span id="mce_1_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;required&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;field&lt;span id="mce_2_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;s&lt;/span&gt; to use.&amp;nbsp; &lt;span id="mce_3_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;Any help&lt;span id="mce_4_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt; would be appreciated.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;Thanks!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;Jeff&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>