Hi,

Don't know if this is a feature or a bug ...
(also this issue relates to 5.x-2.1, 2.6, 2.10 ... haven't tried 2.9)

I have an organic group (yes i'm using the OG Import user module) into which I am importing from a CSV formated list. List includes new users and existing users none of whom are in the group.

Import works
Assignment to group works
Email notification (different for new and existing users) works

However, several existing users have new email addresses. I have tried using the update existing users feature and can't get it to work. Each time, (have tried update profile "replace data" and contact info "replace data") whenever the user's email is different the import simply creates a new user as "username 2"

Is it possible to update the email address of an existing user as part of the import process?

If yes, how?

Thanks

(by the way, I have been using this for a while and this is an absolutely AWESOME module. Haven't seen anything that touches it.)

Comments

robert castelo’s picture

robert castelo commented
Title: Update user seems to be not working. » Updating Email Addresses
Category: bug » feature
Priority: Major » Normal

I changed the title of this issue to be a bit more descriptive, which will help others with same question find it.

The User Import module relies on email address to provide a match between imported info and existing users, so the email address can't be changed.

In future I'd like to implement a feature enabling any unique key to be used as an import match, for instance user ID, or username. Which would close quite a few feature requests.

For now the answer is that it's not possible.

jackspiv’s picture

jackspiv commented
Category: feature » bug
Priority: Normal » Major
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Thanks for the quick reply, Robert.

Closing the issue