ALK CoPilot CoPilot Live Smartphone, User Manual

Importing Custom Places

CoPilot’s Custom Place Import Wizard enables you to import addresses from
your Outlook Contacts database, an Excel file, or text file.  (If you are using
another type of database or contact manager, you can export your contacts/
locations to an Excel or text file before importing them into CoPilot.)  These
points are then added to CoPilot’s POI database in a category and type of
your choice (the default category is “Custom”).   Once in the database, they
are displayed on maps as pushpins and included in search results when you
search for points of interest on your Smartphone or in the Trip Planner win-
dow on your desktop/laptop. 

NOTE: 

CoPilot now allows importing of multiple POIs with the same name

(e.g. an entire database of “Starbucks”).

To access the Wizard, choose 

Import Custom Places

from the 

Tools

menu

in Planning Mode on the desktop, then follow the step-by-step instructions
given by the Wizard.   

Steps for Importing:

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1.  In Planning Mode on your 

desktop/ laptop, choose 

Import

Custom Places

from the 

Tools

menu to open the Import Custom
Places Wizard.

2.  Choose 

Import from Microsoft

Outlook

or 

Import from an 

existing file

(this can be a .txt or

an Excel file).  Click 

Next

.

3.  In the next Wizard screen, type

the path to the file you want to
import or 

Browse

for it, and use

the 

Category

pick list to indicate

a POI category for your imported
places (by default they are
assigned to “Custom”).  You can
also choose a 

Type

from the

pick list.  To edit the type name,
highlight it on the pick list and
click 

Edit Type Name

below.

Click 

Next

when ready.

4.  In the next screen you'll see the

data from your file sorted into
columns. If the columns you see in
the screen have not sorted the
address data correctly, you need to
indicate which delimiter CoPilot
should recognize when it 
separates the fields in your file into
columns. Each field — e.g. name,
street address, city, state, etc. —
needs to be separated by a delim-
iter such as a tab, semicolon, or
comma.  If your file uses a delimiter
other than a comma, tab, or semi-
colon, click 

Other

and type the

delimiter in the box to the right.  If
the first row of your file consists of
column headings, you should
check 

Column headings in first

row

.  Click 

Next

when ready.

5.  Now, following the instructions 

on the screen, click each column
heading and match the column
headings with your data.  To be
accepted by CoPilot, each imported
place must have at least four fields:

Name

, 

Address1

, 

City

, and 

State

.

Click 

Next

when ready.

6.  In the next screen, following the

instructions, you can assign a
name to the set of columns you
just defined to save you time the
next time you import addresses.  

To skip this step, uncheck 

Save

the columns as a new set

.  Click

Finish

.