The Interactive File Importer, IFI, is an all-new take on file importing. Some big differences between IFI and the General File Importer in GMS and VSys are:
Person lookup: In IFI, if you don’t provide a person’s unique 16-digit ID code, but you do provide enough personal data to search on, IFI will locate the most likely prospects. From those, you can choose which one matches, if any, or continue on creating a new person.
Flexibility: IFI has many different modules for importing data. These can be enabled and disabled independently to import just specific types of data or in bulk to do multiple operations with a single record.
Visual field mapping: In the old importer, GMS and VSys relied on the names of fields alone to determine what fields go where and how they should be used. IFI has a visual editor to let you indicate what fields are used and supply multiple (or no) target for each field. This means that just about any file can be imported without first having to modify its column names.
Concepts
IFI is a tool for importing data from non-VSys and non-GMS files to modify or add to the data in VSys One. These files can be from Microsoft Excel (.xls), dBase (.dbf) files, or tab-delimited files created by any other application.
What can you import with IFI?
Personal data for people, including creating new people or deleting people in bulk