Optivity Telephony Manager: System Administration - BT Business

478 Station Administration
Files required for import
The process for importing data into Station Administration requires two files, a data file
and a field file. The data file contains the information that you are importing. Each line
in the data file represents a unique station record, and each column contains a specific
data field. The field file provides the field names and column order of the data fields.
Data file format
The data file must be in the standard ASCII CSV format. By design, the import module
looks for data files with a .txt extension; however, you can request that the import
module read any filename. A typical import file would look something like the
following:
7503,Franco,Audet,Sales
7501,Sun,Chen,Accounting
7502,Carla,Estrada,Accounting
7505,George,Harris,Marketing North America
7500,Paul,Jones,Sales
If the program used to create the data file provides quotation marks around the data
fields, as well a placing commas between the fields, this file format can also be used.
The import feature will remove the quotation marks before storing the data in the station
record. A typical entry in this file format would look like the following:
“7503”,”Franco”,”Audet”,”Sales”
Field file format
The field file tells the import module the field names and order of the data in the data
file. By design, the import module looks for files with a .fld extension; however, this can
be overridden. The field file is a simple list of name with one record per name. The field
file can also be a dBase structure extended file.
The import module looks for a field name on each line, and like the data file format,
quotation marks are ignored.
The field names in this file must correspond to field mnemonics as they appear in
Table 15 on page 202.
Required fields
The import module can be used to either update data on existing stations or to add new
stations to the OTM Station Administration database. In addition to the data fields being
imported, the following data files must be included in the data file that is being imported:
553-3001-330 Standard 3.00 August 2005