Many have asked for it, and now you’ll have it. Whether you’re switching from an existing job platform to webJobs or just want to import a list of users from another system, you now can. It’s simple. You upload a Microsoft Excel CSV file with your user data, map your fields to ours, and in a few minutes your old user database will be in webJobs. Let’s take a look at how it works.
First, you’ll need an Excel file (in CSV format) with all your data. Most database systems will let you export to Excel. After you’ve exported, you’ll have one Excel file with many columns containing the data from your old system. Here’s a simple example of what you might use:
Next, upload this Excel file into the import tool. Since the data we get from customer to customer varies in what they have an how it’s organized, we’ll need to match up the webJobs data with your columns. Here’s what that process looks like:
Here you’ll see the columns we have in our Excel file and the columns that need to be matched up in webJobs. You’ll want to match up as many as you can so we can import all the available data. You can even check your work by clicking the arrows to navigate through some entries to see what data will be imported. Then, with a click of a button you can import all these entries. It’s as simple as that.
This feature will be available in webJobs 4.0 which is slated for release in Q3 2011.
