Answers.Body: <p>We’ve hit this too in the past -> solution is to use the Name of the Financial Type. eg Donation (instead of 1). PS - Also match the case.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: I followed your suggestion, and the problem was solved. Contrary to the documentation, the Financial Type is the Financial Type Name not the Financial Type ID. Thanks.
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Answers.Text: Exactly - glad it helped you out.
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Answers.Text: @BenBachrach - if you've found a bug in the documentation would be great if you can submit an update for that.
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Answers.Text: I think it’s even _id in the header of that column in the import_errors csv file
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Answers.Text: @Aidan - where do we submit updates for the documentation?
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Answers.Text: @BenBachrach - depends which documentation we're talking about!  What's the URL for the documentation you're looking at?  If it's https://docs.civicrm.org/user/... then there is a pencil icon to the right of the main header.  Click that and make your edits and follow the prompts to submit an update.
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Answers.Text: @Aidan - I made proposed revision and submitted it by making a pull request.
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Answers.Text: The key issue may be that this was likely an unintentional side-effect of other core edits; i.e. the docs may be right and id should work
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Body: <p>Trying to import contributions. The data file has integer for Financial Type. Import fails Error File says: "Financial Type is not valid: 1"</p>
  
  <p>Everything I have read said to enter the Financial Type Id. My data table for Financial Type has IDs 1,2,3,4,5
  How can 1 not be valid?</p>
  
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Title: Import Contribution Fails - Financial Type
ThreadText: # Import Contribution Fails - Financial Type
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-05-07)
  
  Trying to import contributions. The data file has integer for Financial Type. Import fails Error File says: "Financial Type is not valid: 1"
  
  Everything I have read said to enter the Financial Type Id. My data table for Financial Type has IDs 1,2,3,4,5
  How can 1 not be valid?
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2019-05-07. Score: 4 | Accepted answer
  
  We’ve hit this too in the past -> solution is to use the Name of the Financial Type. eg Donation (instead of 1). PS - Also match the case.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: I followed your suggestion, and the problem was solved. Contrary to the documentation, the Financial Type is the Financial Type Name not the Financial Type ID. Thanks.  
  > **username_1**: Exactly - glad it helped you out.  
  > **username_2**: @BenBachrach - if you've found a bug in the documentation would be great if you can submit an update for that.  
  > **username_1**: I think it’s even _id in the header of that column in the import_errors csv file  
  > **username_0**: @username_2 - where do we submit updates for the documentation?  
  > **username_2**: @BenBachrach - depends which documentation we're talking about!  What's the URL for the documentation you're looking at?  If it's https://docs.civicrm.org/user/... then there is a pencil icon to the right of the main header.  Click that and make your edits and follow the prompts to submit an update.  
  > **username_0**: @username_2 - I made proposed revision and submitted it by making a pull request.  
  > **username_1**: The key issue may be that this was likely an unintentional side-effect of other core edits; i.e. the docs may be right and id should work  
  
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