Hello. How do I import the dates associated with notes into Maximizer. I have my notes stored in an excel spreadsheet so I'll be importing as a csv. Thanks? Ben

Hi, Ben.

When importing from CSV you can import the note text but not the date. Your best bet would be to convert the CSV data to XML and then import that (assuming that your version of Maximizer is recent enough to support XML imports).

Thanks for your reply. How do I convert data to xml? I've never come across this before. I'm running Maximizer 8, soon to be 9. Appreciate your assistance.

Hi, Ben.

One way to convert Excel data into an XML file would be to create a merge template in Word, merge the data from the Excel spreadsheet, and then save the merged document as a text file with a .XML extension.

The real trick is determining what the XML file should look like. As a simple example, if you had a CSV file that looks like this...

"FirstName","LastName","MrMs","NoteDate","NoteTime","NoteText"
"Bob","Loblaw","Mr","2006-02-10","12:09:30","This is a note."

...after converting to XML it would look something like this...

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<AllData   xmlns             = "http://www.maximizer.com/maximizer/xmlimportexport/3.0"
           xmlns:xsi         = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
           xsi:schemaLocation= "http://www.maximizer.com/maximizer/xmlimportexport/3.0  MXISchema.xsd">

   <Individual>
      <FirstName>Bob</FirstName>
      <LastName>Loblaw</LastName>
      <MrMs>Mr</MrMs>
      <Note>
         <Date>2006-02-10T12:09:30</Date>
         <Text>This is a note.</Text>
      </Note>
   </Individual>

</AllData>

To see more XML tags, try exporting some address book entries to XML and then look at the resulting file.

hello Gord !!!

i just have a quick question.

any idea what the reason would be why Ëxporting CSV files is very slow on maximizer 9?
it wasnt that slow on Maximizer 8 !

thanks mate!

cheers.