This document is intended for technical staff creating imports to Signifikant Platform and describes the Signifikant Simplified XML import format.
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The following information may be imported into Signifikant Platform:
- Texts and translations
- Images and illustrations using illustrations.xml format and possibly also hotspots.xml.
- Parts using part.xml format.
- Assemblies using assemblies.xml format
- Documents using documents.xml format
- Catalogues using catalogue.xml format
- Serial numbers using serialnumber.xml format
- Hotspots using hotspot.xml format
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Preferred import order is
- Texts and translations
- Images and illustrations
- Parts
- Assemblies
- Catalogues
- Serial numbers
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General components of
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most xml import files
Metadata
The Metadata element includes information from the export process. At the moment, it includes export-type and export-time, but this information can easily be extended if the need exists.
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* The persistent-identity is the only attribute that is required in the import file. Often the identity, persistent-identity and number are the same, but there are use cases where these have different values.
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The persistentID has to be unique per type of information and no duplicates may exist. E.g. there may only be one part with the same persistentID. If persistentID is not unique the import engine will get confused and unexpected results may occur. |
Specifications
You can add an arbitrary number of additional attributes to most data types in the Signifikant information model. During import, you provide their values by using the Specifications tag which takes key/value pairs (called type and value).
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Specific components per data type of the xml import files
Texts
Each text may be defined by a persistent id which can be referred from all other exports. Each text contains all translations for that text with language defined using ISO 639-1 alternatively ISO 639-1 and ISO 3166.
A text with language "" is considered being invariant, the same for all languages.
Parts
On top of the common information, the parts file allows you to add a supplier-part-number and a classification for the part. Classification is one way to distinguish various types of parts; another way is to use one or more custom specifications.
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