I'm importing daily changes from our personnel data via a csv file.

The source file contains an employee id number which is used as a Unique id field for the import.

However there are multiple date fields in import file and only some of them contain a date for a given record. Dates that are irrelevant to a particular record change are empty. That is within the csv they look like this:
,"",

On import, Feeds is putting in today's date for any date field that is empty instead of just skipping it and leaving it empty in Drupal.

I can't find any settings with the importer interface to alter this behavior, nor have I seen anything within the content type field definitions options.

Is there a way to alter this behavior within Feeds?

Thanks for your help!

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chilic’s picture

chilic CreditAttribution: chilic commented

I have a similar problem. To fix I use temper module.

bmenk’s picture

bmenk CreditAttribution: bmenk commented

Do you mean the Feeds Tamper module? Could you provide some details on how you use it to fix this?

Thanks

bmenk’s picture

bmenk CreditAttribution: bmenk commented

I've installed Feeds Tamper and for all the date fields, I've added this plugin: "Filter Empty Items", which sounds like it does what I want, which is to ignore empty fields rather than to insert today's date into them.

Doesn't seem to make any difference.

Is there some other plugin I should be applying to get this to work, or is this just not something I can do with Feeds & Feeds Tamper?

bmenk’s picture

bmenk CreditAttribution: bmenk commented

I found the patch at #51 over in this thread which works for what I need for now.

MegaChriz’s picture

MegaChriz CreditAttribution: MegaChriz as a volunteer commented
Component: Feeds Import (feature) » Code
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

This is fixed as part of #1107522: Framework for expected behavior when importing empty/blank values + text field fix.