Problem importing codelist

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I need to import a hierarchical codelist but receive this error message: 'Error importing data... row; column; wrong column name'. I am importing it as a zipped CSV.

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Answer 1

In order to import a codelist you should follow the naming that you gave to the different levels of your hierarchy.

If for instance you have a three-level hierarchy codelist with Category -> Subcategory -> Subdivision

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The the CSV file should have at least 9 columns 1 with code, 1 with label, 1 with description (in case you only have one language set in your survey, i.e. English). You should import the codelist as a CSV rather than a ZIP.

category_code,category_label_en,category_description_en,subcategory_code,subcategory_label_en,subcategory_description_en,subdivision_code,subdivision_label_en,subdivision_description_en
1,1,,,,,,,
1,1,1 desc,1a,a,1a desc,,,
1,1,1 desc,1a,a,1a desc,1a1,1,1a1 desc
1,1,1 desc,1a,a,1a desc,1a2,2,1a2 desc
1,1,1 desc,1b,b,1b desc,,, 
1,1,1 desc,1b,b,1b desc,1b1,1,1b1 desc
1,1,1 desc,1b,b,1b desc,1b2

Answer 2

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When you export the codelist what do you get? The codelist that you import should look the same than the one you export (I mean the structure)

Before you import anything you need to create the levels of the hierarchical codelist...

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answered 07 Mar '23, 21:55

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I'm not sure what you mean. I can't import the codelist so there is nothing for me to export.

So, I have 11 columns and should create 11 columns within collect to correspond. For example, in the csv the attributes are labelled 'attribute_label', 'attribute_code', 'attribute_description'. Do the names for the levels need to look exactly the same?

(08 Mar '23, 18:43) hcardwell

I understand what you mean now!

The order of the attributes that collect spits out is different from mine. For example, I have '_label', '_code', '_description' but collect shot out '_code', '_label_en', '_description_en'.

(08 Mar '23, 19:40) hcardwell

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