Since Full Contact has five user defined fields, the extra fields in TouchBase are concatenated and written onto a note card.
When creating the import within TouchBase, you must be careful to check for carriage returns within your note fields. It is better to export the notes with the contact names into a separate file and remove the carriage returns using a spreadsheet program. Here's how to do it:
Export your notes from TouchBase
1 - In the export screen set the “contact delimiter” to a character that you would not find in your text. This could be a “~” or some unique character.
2 - Set the "field delimiter" to “Tab”
3 - Export the file. This will create a text file that can be read into Word.
Clean up the text file
4 - Launch Microsoft Word and open the text file you exported from TouchBase. It should look very crowded.
5 - Position the cursor at the beginning of the file.
6 - Type the following keystroke “ctrl-]”. This will put a thin box on the screen.
7 - Highlight this character and Cut it from the text. (Command x)
8 - Select “Replace” from the Edit menu.
9 - In the “Find What” section select Special-“Paragraph Mark”.
10 - In the “Replace with” select Special “Clipboard Contents”. The text "^c" should appear in the field (without the quotes).
11 - Choose replace all. This will substitute the boxes for the returns within your notes. Full Contact will interpret these as returns. We still have to replace the “~” character with returns.
12 - Select “Replace” from the Edit menu.
13 - In the “Find What” field type a “~”
14 - In the “Replace With” field choose “Special - Paragraph Mark”.
15 - Select Replace All. This will replace the ~ with Returns.
16 - Choose Save As from the File Menu and save the document as “Text Only” format
17 - You can now proceed with the import from Full Contact as outlined in the documentation.
