From a6de5a4fa1f8affe5b783126d7475a0f84614d6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mike12345567 <me@michaeldrury.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 16:17:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Exporting date and auto id field, but not importing
 autocolumns when table is created.

---
 packages/server/src/api/controllers/table/utils.js |  1 +
 packages/server/src/api/controllers/view/index.js  | 13 +++++++------
 packages/server/src/utilities/csvParser.js         |  7 +++++--
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/server/src/api/controllers/table/utils.js b/packages/server/src/api/controllers/table/utils.js
index 0623fc64b5..e4086e8071 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/api/controllers/table/utils.js
+++ b/packages/server/src/api/controllers/table/utils.js
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ exports.handleDataImport = async (appId, user, table, dataImport) => {
   if (!dataImport || !dataImport.csvString) {
     return table
   }
+
   const db = new CouchDB(appId)
   // Populate the table with rows imported from CSV in a bulk update
   const data = await csvParser.transform({
diff --git a/packages/server/src/api/controllers/view/index.js b/packages/server/src/api/controllers/view/index.js
index b4399f416d..9a844fedff 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/api/controllers/view/index.js
+++ b/packages/server/src/api/controllers/view/index.js
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ const exporters = require("./exporters")
 const { saveView, getView, getViews, deleteView } = require("./utils")
 const { fetchView } = require("../row")
 const { getTable } = require("../table/utils")
+const { FieldTypes } = require("../../../constants")
 
 exports.fetch = async ctx => {
   const db = new CouchDB(ctx.appId)
@@ -86,15 +87,15 @@ exports.exportView = async ctx => {
     schema = table.schema
   }
 
-  // remove any auto columns
-  const autocolumns = Object.entries(schema)
-    .filter(entry => entry[1].autocolumn)
+  // remove any relationships
+  const relationships = Object.entries(schema)
+    .filter(entry => entry[1].type === FieldTypes.LINK)
     .map(entry => entry[0])
   rows.forEach(row => {
-    autocolumns.forEach(column => delete row[column])
+    relationships.forEach(column => delete row[column])
   })
-  // delete auto columns from schema
-  autocolumns.forEach(column => {
+  // delete relationships from schema
+  relationships.forEach(column => {
     delete schema[column]
   })
 
diff --git a/packages/server/src/utilities/csvParser.js b/packages/server/src/utilities/csvParser.js
index c548a71758..8f9b3373c9 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/utilities/csvParser.js
+++ b/packages/server/src/utilities/csvParser.js
@@ -102,8 +102,11 @@ async function transform({ schema, csvString, existingTable }) {
     schema = updateSchema({ schema, existingTable })
   }
 
-  for (let key of Object.keys(schema)) {
-    colParser[key] = PARSERS[schema[key].type] || schema[key].type
+  for (let [key, field] of Object.entries(schema)) {
+    // don't import data to auto columns
+    if (!field.autocolumn) {
+      colParser[key] = PARSERS[field.type] || field.type
+    }
   }
 
   try {