[Developers] Errors with new import system.

[Aseem Mohanty]

Hi Daniel.

Sorry to hear that you ran into the 'transient error' problem. It is a 
known bug that usually occurs on data refreshes and we are working on 
fixing that.

If you did the import on sandbox, you don't need to worry about merging 
things as sandbox is reset every week with data from freebase.com and 
mistakes are not only tolerated but encouraged.

However if you did the import on freebase.com, I think you may have to 
mark them for merges.

HTH
AM

Daniel E. Renfer wrote:
> Daniel E. Renfer wrote:
>> I was testing out the new import system by trying to import a list of 
>> cards and their artists for my Magic The Gathering domain.
>>
>> I had already loaded the list of these cards under the old system, so 
>> they were all auto-merged. The problem came when I tried to do the 
>> artists.
>>
>> Some of these artists are already in the system, so there were no 
>> problems there. It came down to the new artists. It was forcing me to 
>> "add new" for each and every one of them. When I finished it wanted to 
>> create an instance for each card-artist relation.
>>
>> It would be better if it could identify that an artist with that same 
>> name is pending to be created, and auto-merge with that new topic.
>>
>> On top of that, when I tried to finalize the import, the site threw a 
>> "transient error" I'm actually glad that it did, I'm going to re-do my 
>> list to fix this problem unless you fix things on your end before I 
>> get back to it tomorrow.
>>
> 
> On second look, it appears that it did indeed create copies of each of 
> them. So I'm really sorry about that. If you have a tool to easily merge 
> them, it would be appreciated, if not I'll go through them and flag them 
> all for merge.
> 
> 
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