Ok really trying to use the datafile. so far is seems ignore, default-value, do not work. so will see what I can do to make this viable. here is the senario. I have a supplier file that has information that goes in many different entities. the Files are usually tab delimited. So I created a record for each. the problems is ignoring all the columns thru pass. that is what ignore is suppose to do. would be easier if you can specify a column to use for the output. any way if somone wants to chime other wise will make a jira with my contribution
BTW Happy Memorial day for those in the US. BJ Freeman sent the following on 5/24/2009 1:19 PM: > I have a suggestion: > 1) lot of the datafiles should have the ability to have set value fields > that need to be filled in as they are converted to entities. > > and example is Product > the Datafile may not have the field chargeShipping which is default N > so to put in a Field with and attribute value which tells the datafile > import to just pass this thru but not read the datafile for this. > this way the xml output will have the field chargeShipping="N" > or > productTypeId="FINISHED_GOOD" which really is not a default but should > be filled in during the import of the xml. The datafile usually does not > have such information in it. > > Or did I miss something? > any suggestions before I make a patch? > > I thought about putting in defaults in to the minilang new entity or and > EECAS but that takes a lot more than just working on the datafile > component. I am not ready to take on such a task. > :D > -- BJ Freeman http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation http://bjfreeman.elance.com http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1237480&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro Systems Integrator.
