CSV Upload "Upload failed. We couldn’t find a delimiting character. Usually that’s a comma or table cell."

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Hi Team

When trying to upload data from CSV it gives the following error:

“Upload failed. We couldn’t find a delimiting character. Usually that’s a comma or table cell.”.

I tried making the data as simple as possible, e.g. 3 rows containing “one, two, three”, saved it as shown in the video, but still comes back with the error.

Any suggestions?

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I got this same error. I downloaded a google sheet as a CSV and tried to upload it and it’s telling me it can’t find a delimiting character. Any ideas?

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I’m having the same problem. I’ve saved an excel file as csv but webflow is giving me the same upload failed message. I’ve just got 1 column of 8 cells that I’m testing on. Did you find out what was causing this?

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I have the same problem.

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I have the same problem.

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Yes. I am also having this problem. CSV generated by Excel.

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Anyone from webflow can help us pls
@PixelGeek is there a @webflowHELP user , who is best to reference in here, the askSerge can no longer be found ;(
thxs

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I recommend you create a couple of records in a collection then download the CSV by exporting
the collection. You will see the structure. You can check your existing file against it.

If you open a CSV with Excel, don’t convert the file to Excel format. Leave it as it is.

Check your CSV file for errors with https://csvlint.io/ fix them and then upload.

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Was getting the same error every time my CSV had one column. Everything worked when uploading 2+ columns of data. There’s definitely an issue with importing one table column.

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Still encountering this issue. I downloaded a one column Google Sheet as a csv and I cannot import it to Webflow.

“Upload failed. We couldn’t find a delimiting character. Usually that’s a comma or table cell.”

Going to take webdev’s advice to see if that works.

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@Paul_Jauregui is correct - a solution is to add a second column filled with any character or word (I just put a space character), export as csv, import to Webflow CMS, then simply “Do not import” the second column.

Webflow, please accommodate importing one column CSVs.

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My lord. Maddening. Webflow, please fix this error message for one-column CSV uploads, or accommodate them.

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This happens when your CSV file has only one clumn, duplicate the first column and it will upload.

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