From 319c9f69675829e41da872a6166e579ef4813a74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "gpt-engineer-app[bot]"
 <159125892+gpt-engineer-app[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:06:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Changes

Co-authored-by: renee-png <262607627+renee-png@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 src/routes/settings.import.tsx | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/routes/settings.import.tsx b/src/routes/settings.import.tsx
index 6b382d9..4c2e66c 100644
--- a/src/routes/settings.import.tsx
+++ b/src/routes/settings.import.tsx
@@ -665,7 +665,8 @@ const IMPORTERS: ImporterConfig[] = [
   {
     key: "status_updates",
     label: "Status updates → Status",
-    description: "Case status reports.",
+    description:
+      "Case status reports. Match cases by title + client name (recommended), or by case number / external id.",
     table: "status_updates",
     conflict: "external_id",
     required: ["title", "body", "case_id"],
@@ -675,14 +676,18 @@ const IMPORTERS: ImporterConfig[] = [
       body: "body", content: "body", notes: "body", description: "body",
       caseid: "_caseext", matterid: "_caseext", casenumber: "_casenum",
       casename: "_casename", casetitle: "_casename", matter: "_casename", mattername: "_casename",
+      clientname: "_clientname", client: "_clientname", hoa: "_clientname", association: "_clientname",
     },
     transform: (r, ctx) => {
+      const titleKey = r._casename ? String(r._casename).toLowerCase().trim() : "";
+      const clientKey = r._clientname ? String(r._clientname).toLowerCase().trim() : "";
       r.case_id =
         (r._caseext && ctx.caseByExt.get(String(r._caseext))) ||
+        (titleKey && clientKey && ctx.caseByClientAndTitle.get(`${clientKey}||${titleKey}`)) ||
         (r._casenum && ctx.caseByNumber.get(String(r._casenum))) ||
-        (r._casename && ctx.caseByTitle.get(String(r._casename).toLowerCase().trim())) ||
+        (titleKey && ctx.caseByTitle.get(titleKey)) ||
         null;
-      delete r._caseext; delete r._casenum; delete r._casename;
+      delete r._caseext; delete r._casenum; delete r._casename; delete r._clientname;
       if (!r.case_id || !r.body) return null;
       return r;
     },