[Developers] Errors with new import system.

[Bryan Culbertson]

Daniel--

As you noticed, the current version of List Importer does not support  
internal reconciliation. This is a feature which is, as you found,  
extremely useful. However, it is more difficult to implement than it  
seems at first glance since we auto-reconcile in advance of user's  
choices. We are currently working on methods to allow for internal  
reconciliation without making the import process unduly complicated,  
and we hope to add such a feature in the future.

Until then, if you have multiple topics which you need to add as new,  
beforehand use List Importer to add them separately. For example, go  
to the Artist type page and import the list of artists, and then  
import the list of cards with the artists attached.

--Bryan

On Mar 4, 2008, at 10:42 PM, 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.
>
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