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I have to go through roughly 700 data entries and adjust the system's data accordingly ... by hand.๐Ÿ˜‘
We don't have the tools to automate this reliably, the only available tool, tells you that an error occured and what happened but not where. That would've been kinda helpful...
The problem is that the respective data object of the data entry often contains a phone number, which has to be in a standardized format ... which it is not. Every number is formatted in like 10 variations!? A dozen different separators like spaces, commas, slashes and hyphens. And it must be edited manually ๐Ÿ˜–
My solution: built a goddamn chrome extension to format the string on click. Done. Saves a few seconds each time and a lot of headache in future. Of course given the correctness of the extension.

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  • 3
    Export data
    Fix in excel
    Import data back

    Or

    Scrape data with crawler,
    Fix data automagically
    Post data back to update

    I don't know why people make their life hard for ๐Ÿคจ
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    @C0D4 I would almost go so far as to say writing the select query... processing the data into the correct format... and then writing the insert query loop would constitute... fun.

    Certainly more fun than 700 rows of data entry.
  • 0
    Some google engineers are developing a tool for that use case called OpenRefine.
  • 0
    You always have options. Depending on data format you can write your own tool. If you can only access/modify the data trough a UI use RPA.
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