Answers.Body: <p>Depending on how many contacts you have that don't have emails, a short-term work-around would be to:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Put into the CSV a blatantly false email address for each contact (example: example@example.org)</li>
  <li>Import the contacts</li>
  <li>Search for the email address you used, and</li>
  <li>Use the Batch Update action (with a profile that has email address) to
  remove all of the fake email addresses at once.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>This will remove the email address from each person, but still keep the contact records.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Email address isn't a required field unless you don't also have a last name.  At present, CiviCRM requires either a last name or an email address, but not both.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Ok, I interpreted the error I got incorrectly. Looking at the csv file of rejected records (all 5 of the test records) I see this line: "Invalid value for field(s) : Addressee must be one of the configured format options. Check Administer >> System Settings >> Option Groups >> Addressee for valid values".  Checking the format for valid options shows this: "{contact.individual_prefix}{ } {contact.first_name}{ }{contact.middle_name}{ }{contact.last_name}{ }{contact.individual_suffix}". Each of the records I am importing has a name, an address, a city, and a zip code. What could my error be?
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Answers.Text: You are right. My mistake was accidentally matching the street address in the import file with the "Addressee" field. When I corrected that the import went without a problem.
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Body: <p>I am running CiviCRM v.4.7.6. I am trying to import a csv file into contacts. Some of the members of the organization do not have email accounts and as a result the import rejects those records. Is there any way to import a file that has some of the required fields missing?</p>
  
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Title: How to import csv file with some required fields missing
ThreadText: # How to import csv file with some required fields missing
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-04-28)
  
  I am running CiviCRM v.4.7.6. I am trying to import a csv file into contacts. Some of the members of the organization do not have email accounts and as a result the import rejects those records. Is there any way to import a file that has some of the required fields missing?
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2016-04-28. Score: 6 | Accepted answer
  
  Email address isn't a required field unless you don't also have a last name. At present, CiviCRM requires either a last name or an email address, but not both.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Ok, I interpreted the error I got incorrectly. Looking at the csv file of rejected records (all 5 of the test records) I see this line: "Invalid value for field(s) : Addressee must be one of the configured format options. Check Administer >> System Settings >> Option Groups >> Addressee for valid values".  Checking the format for valid options shows this: "{contact.individual_prefix}{ } {contact.first_name}{ }{contact.middle_name}{ }{contact.last_name}{ }{contact.individual_suffix}". Each of the records I am importing has a name, an address, a city, and a zip code. What could my error be?  
  > **username_0**: You are right. My mistake was accidentally matching the street address in the import file with the "Addressee" field. When I corrected that the import went without a problem.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-04-28. Score: 2
  
  Depending on how many contacts you have that don't have emails, a short-term work-around would be to:
  
  1. Put into the CSV a blatantly false email address for each contact (example: example@example.org)
  2. Import the contacts
  3. Search for the email address you used, and
  4. Use the Batch Update action (with a profile that has email address) to
     remove all of the fake email addresses at once.
  
  This will remove the email address from each person, but still keep the contact records.
  
  
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