USER'S GUIDE - ShipWeight

Additional features
To start a Flat File Import, you first need to define a ShipWeight Import (SWI)
format – or load an already existing one.
A defined SWI format contains a set of import rules, and each import rule tell
what data from the flat file goes into a specific field in the database.
To start a new import definition, press the ‘New definition’ button. This will
clear the dialog of any previous definitions.
The definition of an import rule is done in the lower area of the window.
In the ‘Edit definition of selected line’ frame, the first two edit boxes are used
to tell which character positions to be retrieved from the import file. Next, to
specify which field in the database the information in this character field is
going into, select from the dropdown of the combo box. The combo box only
spells the ID of the field since this title may change from project to project. In
the field right to the combo box, however, you can read the title for this field as
defined in the project the data will be imported to.
4-45
ShipWeight – User’s Guide, version 10.0, April 2011