Importing contacts - Aurora Files documentation

Importing contacts

Aurora Files lets users import contacts from comma-separated CSV files as well as from standard contact lists in vCard format (VCF files).

VCF format is preferred as it's standardized (while CSV is not). In case if you cannot use VCF, you'll need to make sure the CSV you'll use for data exchange has the columns with certain names and values.

CSV file (comma-separated values) is technically a plaintext file with one database record per line. The first line of the file usually contains table headers. Aurora Files supports the following headers and columns of the following kind (headers are case-insensitive, unrecognized headers are ignored):

Aurora Files contacts field	Supported CSV file headers
First Name	FirstName First Name First
Last Name	LastName Last Name Last
Full Name	FullName Full Name EmailDisplayName Email Display Name DisplayName Display Name Name
Nick Name	NickName Nick Name
Title	Title
Business Company	Company
Business Department	Department
Business Job Title	Job Title
Business Email	Business Email Business E-mail
Business Web Site	Business Web Business Web Page Business Website
Business Office Location	Office Location
Business Street	Business Street
Business City	Business City
Business State	Business State
Business Zip Code	Business Postal Code
Business Country	Business Country
Business Fax	Business Fax
Business Phone	Business Phone
Home Street	Home Street Home Address
Home City	Home City
Home State	Home State
Home Zip Code	Home Postal Code
Home Country	Home Country
Home Fax	Home Fax
Home Phone	Home Phone
Home Mobile	Mobile Phone
Home Email	Email E-mail E-mail Address Email Address EmailAddress
Home Web Site	Web Page Web-Page WebPage Personal Website
Notes	Notes
Other Email	Other Email Other E-mail
Birthday	Birthday Date of birth

Aurora Files uses full name only, and if it is not available in CSV content, it is composed from First Name and Last Name.

In Aurora Files database, birthday is actually split into 3 fields for day, month and year. Various separators are recognized, any of the following formats should work: DD.MM.YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY or DD-MM-YYYY. Notations which start from year (e.g. YYYY.MM.DD) are handled properly as well.

As you can see, only English versions of Outlook are currently supported. If you use the product in other language, we suggest to modify CSV file manually and amend the headers using patterns from the above table.

You can download sample CSV file, it contains 2 entries, one of those has basic information supplied while the other entry has most of the fields filled.