Forms: File Columns

The data columns present in the import file are defined here.

Form: File Column Details

Field	Description
Name	The name of the column. The attribute will be referred by this name elsewhere in PhixFlow. This can contain any combination of letters and numbers, and the characters: '_'.
Type	This can be one of: String Integer Float Date - please see valid href="#validdateformats">Date formats Datetime - please see valid href="#validdateformats">Datetime formats TrueFalse - please see valid href="#validtruefalsevalues">TrueFalse values
Length	For a String, the maximum length of the String. For an Integer, the maximum number of digits. Note that for a comma-separated file it is not necessary to set field sizes; only the field sizes of the fields in the stream that this collector will write to are important. Of course, for a file with fixed length records it is crucial to set the fields lengths correctly.
Order	The order in which the attributes are placed. This must match the order of the fields in the files that will be read by this file collector.
Description	Description of the file column.

The following formats are available for use in Date and Datetime type fields:

Valid Date Formats	Valid Datetime Formats
dd/MM/yy dd/MMM/yy dd/MM/yyyy dd/MMM/yyyy dd-MM-yy dd-MMM-yy dd-MM-yyyy dd-MMM-yyyy MM/dd/yy MMM/dd/yy MM/dd/yyyy MMM/dd/yyyy MM-dd-yy MMM-dd-yy MM-dd-yyyy MMM-dd-yyyy yyyyMMdd	dd/MM/yy HH:mm:ss dd/MMM/yy HH:mm:ss dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss dd/MMM/yyyy HH:mm:ss dd-MM-yy HH:mm:ss dd-MMM-yy HH:mm:ss dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss MM/dd/yy HH:mm:ss MMM/dd/yy HH:mm:ss MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss MMM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss MM-dd-yy HH:mm:ss MMM-dd-yy HH:mm:ss MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss MMM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss yyyyMMdd.HHmmss

The symbols used in these formats are explained in the following table

Symbol	Meaning	Presentation	Examples
y	year	year	1996
M	month of year	month	Jul; 07
d	day of month	number	10
H	hour of day (0~23)	number	0
m	minute of hour	number	30
s	second of minute	number	55

The number of letters used in the pattern determines the format.

Number: The minimum number of digits. Shorter numbers are zero-padded to this amount.
Year: Numeric presentation for the year field are handled specially. For example, if the count of 'y' is 2, the year should be displayed as the zero-based year of the century, which is two digits.
Month: 3 or over, use text, otherwise use number.

The following values are available in upper, lower and mixed cases for use in the TrueFalse type field:

Valid True Values	Valid False Values
true,yes,T,Y,1	false,no,F,N,0

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