Data Loader Guide
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Step Five: Import the Data
| Available in: Salesforce Classic |
| Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, Developer, and Database.com Editions |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To insert records: | “Create” on the record |
| To update records: | “Edit” on the record |
| To upsert records: | “Create” or “Edit” on the record |
| To delete records: | “Delete” on the record |
| To hard delete records: | “Delete” on the record |
Now that all the pieces are in place, you can run Data Loader from the command line and insert some new accounts.
- Copy the following data to a file name accountInsert.csv. This is the
account data that you import into your
organization.
- In the command prompt window, enter the following command:
process.bat "<file path to process-conf.xml>" <process name>
- Replace <file path to process-conf.xml> with the path to the directory containing process-conf.xml.
- Replace <process name> with the process specified in process-conf.xml.
Your command should look something like this:
process.bat "C:\DLTest\Command Line\Config" accountInsert
After the process runs, the command prompt window displays success and error messages. You can also check the log files: insertAccounts_success.csv and insertAccounts_error.csv. After the process runs successfully, the insertAccounts_success.csv file contains the records that you imported, along with the ID and status of each record. For more information about the status files, see Reviewing Data Loader Output Files.