[ZendTo] Re: CVS import enhancement request and CVS not working as expected

[Jules]

  Looks okay. I would just use "ZendTo Recipient" or similar instead of 
"CSV imported recipient".
Otherwise looks fine.

What wording would you like me to use in the next release?

Jules.

On 24/09/2010 15:02, Brad Beckenhauer wrote:
> Julian, would you verify that this won't mess up something else on Zendto?
> To remove "John Doe" name from being listed next to the cvs imported 
> users email address I did the following.
> edit NSSDropoff.php
> near line 1119:
> find:
>       $recipients[] = array(( $recipName ? $recipName : "" ),$recipEmail);
> If you want only the email address displayed:
> change to:
>               $recipients[] = array( "" ,$recipEmail);
> or if you want some text next to the recipients email address:
>               $recipients[] = array( "CSV imported recipient" 
> ,$recipEmail);
>
> Disclaimer, use at your own risk.
> thanks
> Brad
> >>> On 9/14/2010 at 9:49 AM, in message 
> <4C8F451A.BC51.0068.1 at aafp.org>, "Brad Beckenhauer" <bbecken at aafp.org> 
> wrote:
> There are two parts in this email.
> 1) Currently when using the cvs import file feature the First 
> recipient's NAME is used to populate the NAME field for the users 
> imported using the CVS file.
> Example:
> zendto-cvs.txt
> jdoe1 at yahoo.com <mailto:jdoe1 at yahoo.com>
> jdoe2 at yahoo.com <mailto:jdoe2 at yahoo.com>
> jdoe3 at yahoo.com <mailto:jdoe3 at yahoo.com>
> jdoe4 at yahoo.com <mailto:jdoe4 at yahoo.com>
> Summary Screen
> Notice that the Name of the first recipient (not in the cvs file) is 
> populating the name field of the users imported from the CVS file.
> Suggestion:
> if the CVS import feature is used, do not populate the full name of 
> the file sender with the email addresses in the cvs file or if a Name 
> must be specified, then populate it with something generic.
> 2) CVS not working as expected:  the Zendto Help say that "A plain 
> text file with a single email address per line".
> Reality:
> If you have a cvs file with multiple email address separated by a 
> comma, both email addresses are extracted from the single line (jdoe1 
> & jdoe11 AND jdoe2 is also extracted.  The below cvs file would add 
> three recipients (not including the first listed recipient).
> example cvs file:
> zendto-cvs.txt
> jdoe1 at yahoo.com <mailto:jdoe1 at yahoo.com>, jdoe11 at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:jdoe11 at yahoo.com>
> jdoe2 at yahoo.com <mailto:jdoe2 at yahoo.com>
> This could be addressed by either changing the text presented to the 
> sender or changing the Zendto code to match what the text says.
> Another interesting observation, one of our tech exported a cvs list 
> from our Lyris ListManager and the cvs had many comma delimited 
> fields.  They where able to import the cvs without modification which 
> tells me that the cvs import function is scanning the cvs for email 
> addresses and grabbing them.  That could be a good/bad thing if the 
> cvs had multiple email addresses for a single contact on a single row 
> (such as for primary email contact and secondary email contact), and a 
> dropoff would result in the recipient receiving two notifications, one 
> to their primary email address and the second to their secondary 
> contacts.  Just pointing this out so others are aware.
> thanks
> Brad
>
>
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Jules

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