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    {ts}The Activity Import Wizard allows you to easily upload activity from other applications into CiviCRM. Contacts must already exist in your CiviCRM database prior to importing activities for them.
        Use Import Contacts to create contact records first, if necessary. Then you can match activities to contacts by Email Address, CiviCRM Contact ID, or an External Identifier (see the TIP below).{/ts}
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    {ts}Files to be imported must be in the 'comma-separated-values' format (CSV). Most applications will allow you to export records in this format. Consult the documentation for your application if you're not sure how to do this. Save this file to your local hard drive (or an accessible drive on your network) - and you are now ready for step 1 (Upload Data).{/ts}
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    {ts}<strong>TIP - Matching Activities to Contact Records</strong><br />
        CiviCRM allows you to indicate which contact each activity record belongs to using either the unique CiviCRM-assigned Contact ID, a unique External Identifier which you assign, OR your
        configured "strict" Dedupe Rule set (which uses email addresses by default). You must include at least one of these values as a column in your import file.
        If you have are synchronizing (or migrating) contacts from another application to CiviCRM, and that application has assigned a unique ID to each contact, you can import that value into
        CiviCRM's External Identifier field. Then you can use that unique key as the "match to contact" value when importing related data such as Activities and Contributions.
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