Why doesn GoldMine include a better SharkWare importer with the software?
That is a good question. If GoldMine did, we would not have bothered developing the procedure. For one thing, it takes a number of different software packages to accomplish the job: Sybase SQL, Sequitter Codebase, Microsoft Visual Studio and ZedTek’s ZTreeWin. This would be too expensive. The conversion process takes more than a simple MAP file. Other programs, such as Outlook, can be easily imported. It is just a matter of matching the fields from one data file into GoldMine’s structure. But SharkWare’s data structure is not that simple. Another obstacle is the date format used in GoldMine Instead of storing March 15, 2001 as “03-15-2001”, GoldMine stores this as “ZJ1D!” This was done to save bytes of storage space while storing the date as well as the time of day. So simple field mapping cannot be used, and a special conversion function must be used. So it may come down to another word – ZJ1D! We are working to develop something that could be included in the GoldMine product. But it
