Hello,
I'm new to Limesurveys and I think it's a great open source tool for survey. I'm writing here beacause I want to suggest a new feature to implement: the import of a custom label sets.

I try to explain myself better. I would like to include in a survey a question where the answer is one of the 109 Italian province, selected using a dropdown menù: the problem is that I have to insert manually 109 name and their codes. Since I have those province in a MySQL database, I thought to export them in a .csv file and import them using "Import label set" in create labelsets menù, but I got an error: "This file is not a LimeSurvey label set file. Import failed.". I have read in documentation that you can import a .csv labelsets only if you have previously exported it.

What I'm talking about is to have the possibility to import a custom labelsets from any .csv file containg as many record as you need. I am not an experienced programmer, but I think that it's not too difficult to implement.

I hope to have been useful for the development of this project.

Bye

Roberto

Hi, have a look at:
http://www.aptige...of-Answers-to-Questions.html#extended

It's not possible to "import a custom labelsets from any .csv file". You need a certain data structure for importing, you can't juts import "any .csv file".

Therefore the solution is to export a sample record and take a look at the internal data structure. After that you can use Excel or any other tool to merge the data according to the data format. After that (and when keeping the data format) it's easy to import this data.

You are right, I understand the problem

Thanks for help!

Bye

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