Marketing Cloud – Import Activity First Line is Skipped Issue

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I'm using an import activity to import one file from FTP, this file does not have header, the first line starts with data that I would like to import into a Data Extension (action: overwrite).

But I've noticed that every time the first line is missing. It is like the Import Activity requires a headers.

Is there one way to import all rows from a file without column header?

Best Answer

Since your file does not contain column headers, I expect that you map the columns by ordinal in your import activity - since you only have the order of the columns you can reference (see an example in the image below):

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You must ensure, that the checkbox saying Import file has column headers in unchecked, as it will otherwise skip row 1, incorrectly assuming it is a header.

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