MetaLocator has had only one long-standing "required" field for each record, and that is the "Name" field. Technically speaking, you can still import records without it, but if you attempt to manually edit a record, the system will require a value for the name field.
For users importing the name as two separate columns, this can be a bit frustrating. This article describes the best practices for importing the name column as two fields.
Automatically set the Name field to
FirstLast: Using an Import Mapping, the name field can be automatically set to the concatenated First and Last name values with a space in between. A new Transformation Mapping should be created with the following template:
{% if template_item.data.firstname}{{template_item.data.firstname}} {{template_item.data.lastname}}{% endif %}
This presumes your field names are "firstname" and "lastname".
Update the data in Excel: If the import spreadsheet contains a column for firstname and lastname, a new column called name could be added containing a formula as shown below:
