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Kim_Gandy1
Kim_Gandy1
Level 6
March 7, 2018
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Country Required for List Import

  • March 7, 2018
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Can you make "country" field required for list imports?

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Best answer by Grégoire_Miche2

Hi Darell,

I would not play too much with alerts on this. It you import a file with 10000 records and 2000 countries are missing, you will receive 2000 alerts and probably seriously overload your mailbox doing this. Sure way tp make a good friend of your email admin

Rather use a smart list  "person was created", source type is file import and subscribe to it.

-Greg

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Darrell_Alfons2
Darrell_Alfons2
Level 10
March 7, 2018

Kim,

No you cannot. However, you can setup an alert to let you know when this happens.

Trigger lead is created, source type is import, country field is empty.

And then have the alert go to you so you know it needs to be fixed.

Side note: I have created an import template that all marketing users use when they are importing that has all the required fields, this helps a lot.

Grégoire_Miche2
Grégoire_Miche2Accepted solution
Level 10
March 7, 2018

Hi Darell,

I would not play too much with alerts on this. It you import a file with 10000 records and 2000 countries are missing, you will receive 2000 alerts and probably seriously overload your mailbox doing this. Sure way tp make a good friend of your email admin

Rather use a smart list  "person was created", source type is file import and subscribe to it.

-Greg

    Darrell_Alfons2
    Darrell_Alfons2
    Level 10
    March 8, 2018

    Ah yes @Grégoire Michel​, good idea, that is way better.

    Jo_Pitts1
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    Jo_Pitts1Community Advisor
    Community Advisor
    March 8, 2018

    Kim,

    I know this is one of these frustrating things, but maybe look at source data quality - it is the old garbage in garbage out issue

    The other thought might be to upload the data via a CRM that does allow you to enforce mandatory fields rules and have it pushed to Marketo via integration.  We've adopted this approach successfully using Zoho and Marketo.

    Regards

    Jo

    Nicholas_Manojl
    Nicholas_Manojl
    Level 8
    March 8, 2018

    You could also set up a smart campaign that listens for person was created via list import and country is empty.. and delete the lead as the flow step.

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