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Ignore import_id_fields in class Meta

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Errors Line number: 1 - "Column ‘id’ not found in dataset. Available columns are: [‘name’, ‘model’,‘content’]

class PageResource(resources.ModelResource):
    class Meta:
        model = Page
        import_id_fields = ('name',)

system: python 3.4.3, django 1.9

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jwzh222commented, Feb 8, 2017

hi @gbozee @haidaraM ,thanks to comments but it doesn’t solve the problem. it seems like the meta class option import_id_fields doesn’t work when you give it a new value. it still using the default one ‘id’.

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franz-seecommented, Feb 25, 2019

import_id_fields does NOT work for me either

And adding exclude = ('id',) did NOT work either.

Python Python 2.7.10 Django 1.11.20 django-import-export 1.2.0

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