Country Required for List Import

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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

Nicholas_Manojl

New Participant

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.

Jo_Pitts1

Community Manager

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

Darrell_Alfons2

New Participant

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_Miche2Accepted solution

New Participant

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