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Comment: Migration of unmigrated content due to installation of a new plugin
Introducedin
8.5.1
8.5.1
Description

Excerpt

Sets or returns whether values should be preserved when importing into merged cells. The default value is true.

Signature
C#
C#
 public boolean PreserveDataOnMergedCells{ get; set; }

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Example
Code Block
csharp
csharp
titleC#

          //--- Get PreserveDataOnMergedCells
          bool preserveData = importProps.PreserveDataOnMergedCells;

          //--- Set PreserveDataOnMergedCells
          importProps.PreserveDataOnMergedCells = false;
        
Code Block
vb.net
vb.net
titlevb.net

          '--- Get PreserveDataOnMergedCells
          Dim preserveData As Boolean = importProps.PreserveDataOnMergedCells

          '--- Set PreserveDataOnMergedCells
          importProps.PreserveDataOnMergedCells = False
        
Web only
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Given the following data set:

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When importing

Is being imported into the following cells:

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When

If PreserveDataOnMergedCells is equal to true

the result

, each value will be assigned to a cell or group of merged cells.

The result for the above example would be:

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When

If PreserveDataOnMergedCells is equal to false

the result

, ImportData will treat all cells as though they are unmerged. Any additional values that are imported into merged areas will be lost.

The result for the above example would be:

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Web only

Remarks

When PreserveDataOnMergedCells is set to true it will also affect column names when UseColumnNames is also set to true.