Title: How To Use CSV?
Last modified: April 14, 2020

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# How To Use CSV?

 *  Resolved [philbertdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philbertdog/)
 * (@philbertdog)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-use-csv/)
 * What is the procedure for bulk uploading data in a CSV file?
 * I’m not using a spreadsheet, but am instead attempting to regex a big pile of
   data in text files in to the correct format for uploading in a CSV.
 * When I download the CSV file for some data currently in my database I get this:
 * title,id
    Title,”Record ID” “Our Relationship With Knowledge”,3 “Focusing On 
   The Bottom Line”,4 “A Benefit Of The Coronavirus”,5
 * I take this to be an example of how an imported file should be formatted. But
   where is the rest of the data for these records, as example, the URLs associated
   with these article names?
 * Can CSVs be used for bulk uploading large amounts of data? If yes, what is the
   appropriate format for that file?
 * Thanks!

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 *  Plugin Author [Roland Barker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xnau/)
 * (@xnau)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-use-csv/#post-12674373)
 * When exporting a CSV, only the fields marked “CSV” (on the Manage Database Fields
   page) will be included in the export.
 * Take a look at this article, it explains how to import data:
 * [Migrating an Existing Database into Participants Database](https://xnau.com/using-an-existing-database-with-participants-database/)
 *  Thread Starter [philbertdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philbertdog/)
 * (@philbertdog)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-use-csv/#post-12683906)
 * Got it working, awesome feature, thanks for it. Going to spare me many hours 
   of drudgery.

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