How to Import Customer with multiple address & contact

[ebsjbulcher]

That was very helpful - thank you @EugeneP! That’s the most help I’ve found on the import process to date! I still have questions though.

In step three, you say:

@EugeneP

3 Once successful, open the spreadsheet again and copy the Supplier (Supplier Name) / Customer (Full Name) name to the Address template’s Link Name (Links) column and make sure you specify either Supplier or Customer in Link Document Type (Links) column. By doing this you’re sure of linking the Supplier/Customer on their name to the Address records. Fill in or copy and paste the rest of the address detail.

I believe you are refering to this section of the Map Columns document:

My confusion stems from two things:

1. I don’t know the Link Name at the time of import, because it is generated by ERPNext during the Contact/Customer/etc. import process. That makes it very time consuming to use when mapping addresses.
2. The Link Title can be inaccurate, because different people can have the same name and hence, have two different entries in ERPNext. Assuming that the Link Title is unique would lead to associating some addresses with the wrong Contact/Customer/etc, and leave other Contact/Customer/etc without an address at all.

Am I missing something?