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Utilities

In this section you can find different utilities

Import CSV

Select Import CSV to upload placemark definition by CSV file.

Each line of file - one placemark definition.

First line of file - column name list.

Keep in mind - values can't contain delimiter. For example, if your placemark HTML description can contain colon, use semicolon as delimiter (and don't use it in this description).

Main process screen

You can see table of placemark buffer.

All import process has next steps

• upload CSV file in buffer
• check data, edit it
• import data to placemark table
• analyze log
• correct processed placemarks with warnings
• delete processed data from buffer

You can see buttons in toolbar

• Upload File - upload CSV file
• Import All - import data
• Log - show process log
• Clear Log - delete data from process log
• New - create simple placemark definition (for example, for test purposes)
• Edit - edit record in buffer (for example, for fixing errors and upload again)
• Publish and Unpublish - you can change buffer placemark status
• Delete - delete record from buffer
• Delete All - delete all records from buffer
• Delete Processed - delete all records from buffer in state Processed

When you upload file all records have state New

Press Upload File

Select file to upload.

Check and if you need - change Delimiter

You can set some defaults - if in file there is no value (not defined or empty value), you can apply default.

After loading you'll get upload log, it is not stored, only showed

Records can be rejected, if you not define required values. You can see record number (to edit line and upload it)

Records will not be uploaded if your first line doesn't contain column definition.

If you enter wrong colunm name, this column will not processed.

Next column names can be used

title	required	Placemark title
latitude	required	Latitude
longitude	required	Longitude
published	optional	Placemark status, values 0 or 1
addresstext	optional	Text address
icontype	optional	Icon Type
iconofsetx	optional	Icon X-offset
iconofsety	optional	Icon Y-offset
description	optional	Description
descriptionhtml	optional	Addition HTML text. All HTML formatted text in one line, line breaks are not allowed.
hrefimage	optional	URL Image
catid	optional	Category ID
markergroup	optional	Placemark Group ID
createdbyuser	optional	User ID, which associate with placemark
showuser	optional	Show user prompts, one integer value Type of view user information 0 - No 1 - Text 2 - Icon 3 - No prompts
showgps	optional	Show GPS information
preparecontent	optional	Prepare the content with the Joomla Content Plugins, values 0 or 1

You can enter columns in any order, ie order of column names define order of placemark properties

By pressing Import All you start to import placemarks into working table.