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Downloading
and Importing Do Not Call Lists
Downloading
the National call Lists for your Area.
Anyone
can Download the National No Call list for their business. Downloading and
importing into your autodialer or scrubber is essential if you do not want
to be fined for calling No Call registrants. However the process is not
that simple. I have written out the following information to assist you in
downloading and importing the No Calls Lists into your Autodialer.
Currently you may download up to 5 area codes free of charge. You can go
to the National
No Call Registry to begin this process at anytime.
However you may first want to read the information on this page before
doing so
The
National No call List has two types of downloads, Full list downloads and
Change list down loads.
Full
List Download is a download that contains all the registered
telephone numbers within the area codes that are part of your
organization’s subscription. Downloads of multiple area codes or states
have to be done sequentially by file. Each area code or state list is a
discrete file. A download of the entire National Registry is one discrete
file.
Change
List Download is a download that contains telephone numbers
added to or deleted from the National Registry since the last time your
organization downloaded its subscription. You will be notified by email
when the change list download is ready, which may take up to 24 hours.
Interactive Phone Search allows you to enter an area code and up to 10
telephone numbers in that area code. For each telephone number entered,
the system displays whether the number is Registered or Not Registered.
There are two types of files
you can download.
Flat Text File is a comma-delimited flat
text file (for the full list) containing one area code and
telephone number per line, separated by a comma. A comma-delimited text
file (for the change list) has several data items per record,
separated by commas. Flat text file works best for importing into
Autodialer software.
XML Tagged File is an XML
tagged file containing both data and markers ("tags") with
information in angle brackets that indicate the nature of the data.
Download files are compressed or zipped to make downloads faster and more
secure.
Use any standard software for uncompressing or unzipping downloaded files.
If you do not have this software installed on your computer, you can
download it from one of the Web sites that offer such software:
- www.pkware.com
for PKZIP
- www.winzip.com
for WinZip
You
must uncompress the Downloaded files before attempting to import
Generally, you will
need to rename the downloaded file to conform to the conventions required
by the decompression software you are using. For example, you may
need to rename the file so it has a .ZIP file extension. After
you rename the file, then click on it to launch the decompression
software. For details, you should consult the documentation for your
decompression software.
How large are the download
files? How much disk space do they take?
The full list will grow larger as more telephone numbers
are entered into the National Registry. The size of a change list depends
on how long ago you downloaded a list and how many telephone numbers were
added and deleted during that time. The average single area currently has
around 200 to 300 thousand numbers and are slightly less than 1 megabyte
in size. Meaning you should be able to fit most single area codes on one
floppy. That is in compressed format and refers to flat file sizes.
Once the files are uncompressed you will need to store
them in your autodialer hard drive
The
best place to store them is the List subfolder located on the C hard drive
under the Sundial folder.
National No Calls list
many times do not come with the extension at the end. If your DO NOT CALL
was downloaded as a flat text file and has been successfully uncompressed
and stored in the List folder. But still doesn’t show up as a text file,
in other words does not have a txt extension at the end, simply right
click on the file and select it’s properties. Under properties rename
the file by adding txt extension at the end. The would be (nocalls
filename).txt. When you added the txt extension simply apply and exit.
Importing
a good No Calls File into your Autodialer.
As
long as it is a standard Ascii comma delimited text file you can now
import the no Calls into your autodialer software. (Please read
section 4 of your Autodialer Manual on importing into Listmaker).
Importing
a No Calls list follows the same steps as the manual describes, with the
exception of saving to the Nocalls.mdb file located in the Sundial folder.
You must save your No Call numbers in the Nocalls.mdb file located in the
Sundial folder are they will not be excluded from your dialing lists.
Because the Nocalls.mdb file already exists you will have to append the NO
Calls Data to the list to add numbers to it.
Simply select the nocalls.mdb file located in the Sundial folder
and save. When you press the
"Save" button, the "Append to Existing
File
"
window will open. Press
"Yes" and the data you import
will
be added to the Nocalls.mdb file. This
is the last step in importing the No Call Data into your autodialer if you
have a good file. The problem is that it looks as if some of the files from the
National no call registry or not standard Ascii comma delimited text files and will
have to be reformatted into a useful Ascii comma delimited format before
they can be imported. If you cannot import the nocalls
database you will first have to import the file into Microsoft access. This is not a simple process but can be done
using the following steps.
Using
Microsoft Access to reformat file. Open Microsoft Access and Create a
database to use to import NoCalls List
1. When Microsoft Access first starts up, a dialog box is
automatically displayed with options to create a new database or open an
existing one. If this dialog box is displayed, click Blank Database,
and then click OK.
2. Specify a name and location for the database and click Create.
After
you create a blank database, you must perform additional steps to Import
the Nocalls List.
Import
NoCalls Text Files into Microsoft Access
1.
To import
Nocall List, on the File menu, point to Get External Data,
and then click
Import.
2.
In the Import (or Link) dialog box, in the Files
Of Type box, make sure that Text Files (*.txt) is selected. The
nocalls Database should be a text file.
3.
Click the arrow to the right of the Look In box, select the
drive and folder where the No Calls Text file is located, and then
double-click the database's icon.
IMPORT TEXT WIZARD
The
wizard will walk you through getting data.
1)
First make sure Delimited button is selected and then hit Next
2)
Make sure comma is selected for delimeter that separates fields and
then hit next.
3)
Check “store Data in a new table box and then hit next
4)
Make sure Data type for all fields is text and then hit Next.
5)
Make sure primary Key is selected and then hit next.
6)
Give the NOCALLS file a name (REMEMBER THIS FILE NAME) and then
click finish.
7)
The import wizard will close and a database box will appear in the
center.
You
have just imported the NoCalls Data into Microsoft Access file. The next
step is to open the Nocalls file. To open it simply double-click on the
nocalls file and it will open a datasheet file of no calls numbers
After
you have imported and opened the Nocalls Data you are now ready to Save
Data as a Text Format file
1.
On the File menu, click Export.
2.
In the Save As Type box, click TEXT FILE
3.
Click the arrow to the right of the Save In box, and select
the drive or folder to save to. You will be saving this file in the
Sundial Folder!
4.
In the File Name box, enter a name for the file e.g.:
Nocalls Area-713
5.
DoNot, select the Save Formatted check box. Leave it
unchecked.
6.
Click Save All to save the entire datasheet.
7.
The export wizard will now come up
8.
First make sure Delimited button is selected and then hit Next
9.
Make sure comma is selected for delimeter that separates fields and
then hit next.
10.
That is all the information you need to export the no calls file.
Hit the finish and wait for it complete the export. You are now ready to
import the no calls file into Listmaker… follow the steps in section 4
of your Autodialer manual.
If you are still having problems getting the No Calls Data into the proper format and importing your No Calls Data we can provide this service on a quarterly basis. This is not a free service but it may be the best alternative for someone who is not very computer literate.
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