Hi there,

I just spent an embarrassingly long time trying to figure out why my CSV couldn't be imported. I would browse for it and then it was like the submit button didn't work. After trying it on node import, changing themes, and disabling javascript I discovered it was because a few words in my file had some funny characters in it (é).

It would be really helpful if there was some error messaging, even something simple "check yo file, something isn't right in there". The way it works right now makes you think there is something wrong with the system.

Thanks!

p.s. regardless of taking a silly amount of time to figure out what was happening, I'd rather do that several times as opposed to manually creating the hundreds of nodes. This module is an incredible timesaver <3 <3 <3

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tterranigma commented
Issue summary: View changes
Status: Active » Needs review

Is it OK to close this as a duplicate of #1219000: Show error on failed file upload?

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megachriz
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Hm. If a message like "There are no new nodes" comes up, then it would be a different issue. Then the solution is to check the source, which can be done a lot easier with the Feeds Import Preview module. We could also check here what happens if someone supplies a CSV file that does not match any of the mapped columns. That might be worth an error message. If there already is such one, we can close this issue. In that case the answer would be: check your source.

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tterranigma commented

I created an importer with only one mapping, 'title' field from csv to 'Title' of node. Then I imported a csv with the contents:

asdf
title1

The import finished and a node with all fields empty was created.

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megachriz
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@tterranigma
Hm. That outcome is different from what the issue starter reported. It might qualify for a warning, though the occurence is probably rare, not sure if it is worth the time to implement that.

Rereading the issue summary again, maybe the issue starter means special characters in the file name (instead of in the contents of the file)?

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megachriz
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Status: Needs review » Closed (cannot reproduce)

Closed due to insufficient information about the issue.