Answers.Body: <p>"Participant Status ID doesn't match" means the value(s) you are trying to insert into this field do not match the option values defined in CiviCRM.</p>
  
  <p>Both <strong>Particpant status</strong> and <strong>Participant status Id</strong> are in the list of possible fields to import. Although the UI indicates that you need to import <strong>Participant status Id</strong>  I think you can import <strong>participant status</strong> instead provide the text you import matches exactly with the defined options. </p>
  
  <p>You could be tring to import values such as 'Registered' or 'Attended' into <strong>Participant status Id</strong> when it is expecting numerical values  or you could be trying to import a text value into <strong>Participant status</strong> that is not one of the defined options. (perhaps 'Att' or 'attended' instead of 'Attended')</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Is your CSV file actually <strong>comma-delimited</strong>? </p>
  
  <p>If you choose another delimiter (e.g. semicolon or tab), the import might not work. Been stuck with this issue for hours before figuring out that might actually be a bug in CiviCRM.</p>
  
  <p>See: <a href="https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/14263/cant-import-event-participants">Can&#39;t import Event participants</a></p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>If the file you uploaded did not use commas as the file delimiter, then it's likely you were seeing <a href="https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-19192" rel="nofollow">CRM-19192: Event participants (and possibly other entity) imports do not handle "non-comma CSV"</a>.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I am trying to import multiple participants from a CSV file into Civi as event participants. I am running into an issue when I go to match the required fields. I keep receiving an error because the Participant Status ID doesn't match. </p>
  
  <p>This is a historic event I am trying to enter from another database, so I don't believe we have a match for this field. Is there a way to get around this?</p>
  
  <p>Most of the constituents are already in Civi and have an external identifier from the past database. I now just to update their record to note that they attended the event.   </p>
  
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Comments.Text: do you have a column for participants status name(registered, attended, canceled etc), change it to the status id, civicrm/admin/participant_status?reset=1, if you don't have that column add it and indicate the status with the id
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Comments.Text: Thanks for your response. I tried that strategy and it still gave me the same error notification. Any other ideas?
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Comments.Text: can you test with dummy data on the demo site? the participant status id should be something like 2 for attended or match your participant status
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Tags: <civievent><import>
Title: Importing Participants
ThreadText: # Importing Participants
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-05-05)
  
  I am trying to import multiple participants from a CSV file into Civi as event participants. I am running into an issue when I go to match the required fields. I keep receiving an error because the Participant Status ID doesn't match.
  
  This is a historic event I am trying to enter from another database, so I don't believe we have a match for this field. Is there a way to get around this?
  
  Most of the constituents are already in Civi and have an external identifier from the past database. I now just to update their record to note that they attended the event.
  
  **Tags:** civievent, import
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: do you have a column for participants status name(registered, attended, canceled etc), change it to the status id, civicrm/admin/participant_status?reset=1, if you don't have that column add it and indicate the status with the id  
  > **username_0**: Thanks for your response. I tried that strategy and it still gave me the same error notification. Any other ideas?  
  > **username_1**: can you test with dummy data on the demo site? the participant status id should be something like 2 for attended or match your participant status  
  
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  ## 3 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2016-05-06. Score: 2
  
  "Participant Status ID doesn't match" means the value(s) you are trying to insert into this field do not match the option values defined in CiviCRM.
  
  Both **Particpant status** and **Participant status Id** are in the list of possible fields to import. Although the UI indicates that you need to import **Participant status Id** I think you can import **participant status** instead provide the text you import matches exactly with the defined options.
  
  You could be tring to import values such as 'Registered' or 'Attended' into **Participant status Id** when it is expecting numerical values or you could be trying to import a text value into **Participant status** that is not one of the defined options. (perhaps 'Att' or 'attended' instead of 'Attended')
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_3**: I like this answer - username_0: did you work it out?  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2016-08-08. Score: 1
  
  Is your CSV file actually **comma-delimited**?
  
  If you choose another delimiter (e.g. semicolon or tab), the import might not work. Been stuck with this issue for hours before figuring out that might actually be a bug in CiviCRM.
  
  See: [Can't import Event participants](https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/14263/cant-import-event-participants)
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_5 on 2016-08-08. Score: 0
  
  If the file you uploaded did not use commas as the file delimiter, then it's likely you were seeing [CRM-19192: Event participants (and possibly other entity) imports do not handle "non-comma CSV"](https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-19192).
  
  
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