Title: Update Import
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Update Import

 *  Resolved [roundamerica](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roundamerica/)
 * (@roundamerica)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-import/)
 * Are there instructions somewhere for how to handle a csv import to update my 
   records?
 * How do I obtain the record numbers? What is the header name for that column?
 * If I only import fields with changes, does all else remain the same?
    Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/business-directory-plugin/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/business-directory-plugin/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Business Directory Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/businessdirectoryplugin/)
 * (@businessdirectoryplugin)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-import/#post-6436063)
 * Hi roundamerica,
 * The easiest way to do this is as follows:
 * 1) Export your existing listings under Directory Admin->CSV Export. Be sure to
   check the “Include unique IDs for each listing (sequence_id column).” option.
 * That provides you a unique ID to use for import to update, rather than insert.
   The column for sequence_id is automatically generated for you. If you need to
   use an external data source for the first time, you can skip this step and just
   do the import for the first round of data. This is for the second and subsequent
   rounds ONLY.
 * 2) Make the necessary updates in the CSV. Whatever changes you make here are 
   the changes that will show up.
 * 3) Re-import the file under Directory Admin->CSV Import.
 * Import docs are here: [http://businessdirectoryplugin.com/docs/#admin-import](http://businessdirectoryplugin.com/docs/#admin-import)
 * Export doesn’t have docs, but the options are pretty self-explanatory. Ask questions
   if you disagree. 🙂

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 * [update](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/update/)

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-import/#post-6436063)
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