Hi. I'm experimenting with exporting contacts to edit them and then reimporting them to CRM.
I have a contact that I export to excel, ticking to make it available for reimporting in the process. I make changes, save the Excel XML file and then import. Each time I submit, the Imports log shows a partial failure due to '
A record was not created or updated because a duplicate of the current record already exists.'
The only time I can make changes is if, during the Import Wizard, I select 'Yes' to allowing duplicates. This doesn't actually create a new duplicate contact, but it does successfully update the existing contact.
The fields look exactly the same as all other contacts and those other contacts seem to export and reimport without problems when 'No' is selected to the 'Allow duplicates' question.
Could anyone help me:
- Isolate what it is about this particular contact entity that is causing the reimport failure.
- Why, if I select 'Yes' to 'Allow duplicates' at the reimport Wizard stage it doesn't actually create a duplicate contact, but instead just updates the existing contact with the changes I have made to its fields?
Thank you very much