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I have a question regarding chrono connectivity. I am setting up a site for a friend (who is not techno literate) where they want to be able to upload a database of marathon racing results for people to view from the front end. Ie it would be a table of placing in the race (ie 1, 2,3,....416 etc, name, racing identification number, time it took to finish the race. etc. Now is there a way to set up this software so that all they have to do is upload a csv file (from the joomla component backend) with this information in order to have it published in the front end for all to see. Can this component be set up to work this way?

Hi sizex,

Not really, you need to get the csv file into the database which takes an extra step or two.

The easiest way that I know of is to convert the csv to an sql script - I use the script here then import that into the database using PHPMyAdmin or EasySQL. If the csv file is good then it's a 5-10 minute job (if it's full of special characters and quotes it can take longer as I've just found out).

Bob