Postmanual

You can find this function under the Postmaster > Import/Export sub-tab. There are two steps to this process:

1) Uploading a properly formatted text file
2) Entering the ID of file on the Import/Export sub-tab.

Use Textpattern’s built-in file upload tool (Content > Files) to upload the text file. It should be a CSV (comma-separated values) file, with a single subscriber on each line. Here is a sample text line:

My suggestion is to copy and paste the line of text above in red to a blank notepad file, to begin with.

If there is an issue with formatting and the subscribers don’t enter the database correctly,

Does this means that the importing process has changed?
I mean, does the method using pipes (|) no longer work?

I ask because few days ago I’ve read the old method somewhere in this new Postmaster manual, but I can’t find it anymore. So I suppose it changed to this new method.

Thanks.

— Maniquí · Feb 6, 07:10 PM · #

I found it: it is here: http://www.benbruce.com/postmaster/BulkSubscriptionSubtab

That page of the manual is the one linked from the Import/Export tab on the Postmaster tab (inside TxP admin interface).

— Maniquí · Feb 6, 07:29 PM · #

Maniqui,

You’re right, on both accounts. The plugin is still pointing to the old version of the page. I’ve fixed that in the next version. I hadn’t considered making either method work but I supposed that’s possible if it’s hard on folks. I just had many requests to make it a CSV format.

— Ben · Feb 8, 05:38 PM · #

I’m using the latest plugin versions and 4.06, but I can only import one subscriber at a time, no matter how many are in my csv file. Apologies for the cheeky double post – I’m truly stumped.

— Stu · Sep 11, 06:00 AM · #

I use this for a client and had the same issues until I made sure the CSV document was a new document created in a plain text editor (in my case TextMate). I then did the upload and imported all the subscriber names.

— Thomas · Sep 17, 10:59 AM · #