Using Templates to Update Information for All Locations

Owned by Joseph Yarborough (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Mar 29, 2021 by Anastasiya Dashuk (Unlicensed)
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You can use templates to update information about Locations, Location notes, Location phone numbers, Provider assignments, and Location business hours and holidays. This is useful when you have a large number of locations and want to add or update information in batch.

Instructions

Instructions on using these templates are listed in detail in Service Automation, at the bottom of the Locations page.

Learn more about using the provider assignment template.

Section at the bottom of the Locations page where you can upload and download templates to manage information for all locations

Formatting Alert: UTF-8 Format Required
When uploading information in the form of Spreadsheets, Templates, Text Documents and or copied and pasted to Service Automation or Provider Automation, the Content must be UTF-8 formatted. Content that is not UTF-8 formatted may be misread by our system and cause errors in how your data is interpreted.


 Windows Specific

Windows Specific

Open file in Notepad

Choose Save As

There are three items to update in the Save dialog that comes up.

Save as type: change this to All FilesFile

Name: name your file and add the .csv extension to it - e.g.: myupdates.csv

Encoding: click on the dropdown and choose UTF-8

Save!

 MAC Specific


Mac Specific

  1. Open file in Number
  2. Hover over Export

  3. In the submenu that appears, choose CSV
  4. Click on Advanced Options to show the Text Encoding dropdown
  5. Select Unicode (UTF-8) from the dropdown menu

  6. Click Next Export!




 Google Sheets Specific

Google Sheets

  1. Click File
  2. Click on or hover over Download As

  3. Choose the option Comma-separated values (.csv, current sheet)

  4. After clicking on that option, your file will be automatically downloaded to your computer


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