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title: "Creating an Import Profile"
canonical: "https://support.soutron.net/space/HG/3278574/Creating%20an%20Import%20Profile"
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**To access Importing, select** <span style="color: #ff0000">**Modules > Import > Import Maintenance**</span>.

The page displays as follows:

![image](media://b63672ba-7005-41a1-900a-14ed698dc9f5)

This shows import profiles that have been defined previously.

To create a new profile, click** Create New**.

The following page displays (top of screen only shown):

![image](media://79c4d24b-a320-4f88-97f9-8b73dd9eeffe)

There are six steps in the process:

1. [Give the profile a name](https://soutron.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/HG/pages/3278157)
2. [Define the format of the data source](https://soutron.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/HG/pages/3278139)
3. [Specify where the source data is located](https://soutron.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/HG/pages/3278141)
4. [Define the field mappings](https://soutron.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/HG/pages/3278168)
5. [Specify the import options](https://soutron.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/HG/pages/3278174)
6. [Specify the post-import actions](https://soutron.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/HG/pages/3278159)