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Introduction

The Import Menu is a feature to import bulk data (in a .csv or Excel file) into a specific Joget form. The Import Menu properties allow you to perform simple column-to-field mapping. When importing records, you can specify the following import mode:

Info

During import, you can click the "Validate data" checkbox to perform data validation based on the form field validation rules.

Figure 1: Import Element in UI Runtime




Import Properties

Configure Import

Figure 2: Import Menu Properties 


NameDescription
LabelThe UI Builder page component label. You can add Font Awesome Icons into your component labels. Default label is Import.
Menu ID

Optional custom component id. Value defined here must be unique to the rest of the page components as the first matching name will be called upon.

Form

Specify on where to store the data by choosing a target form. The target form's store binder will be called upon for data storage.

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titlePost Form Submission Processing

Any Tool mapped under Post Form Submission Processing of the target form will be triggered each time a record updated or created.

Important: The tool mapped will be triggered regardless of the Run Tool on attribute.

Column Mapping
NameDescription
Column Number

Column number from the source file. Column number starts from zero.

Field Name

Corresponding element ID in the form set above to be mapped to.

If you are referring to a Subform in the target form, remember to prepend the field name with subform element ID followed by an underscore.

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titleExample

Subform ID: subform

Form ID set in the Subform: child

Field ID in the subform: name

Field Name: subform_child_name

Use Formatted Value

Check this field to use Formatted Value instead of the default Raw/Cell Value.

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titleExample

Key Column NumberDefine column number that defines the record id. Column number starts from zero.
Start From Row NumberDefine which row number to start processing. Row number starts from zero.
Custom CSV Delimiter CharacterSymbol to represent the delimiter separator.
Custom CSV Quote CharacterSymbol to represent the regular quote character.


Action Properties

Figure 3: Action Properties


NameDescription
Confirmation MessageConfirmation Message.
Message to show when error occurMessage shown when error occur.
Message to show after data importedMessage shown after data imported.
RedirectionURL to redirect, for example, to redirect to the CRUD List.

UI Properties

Figure 4: UI Properties


NameDescription
Custom HeaderCustom Header in HTML.
Custom FooterCustom Footer in HTML.


Advanced Properties

Figure 5: Import Menu Properties - Advanced


NameDescription
Disable delete record feature

Disables the option for end users to delete records.

UTF-8 Encoding Checking?When checked, it will check the uploaded file if it is a valid UTF-8 encoded file.
UI Key Name

Corresponding element ID in the form set above to be mapped to (same like the mapping in "Column Mapping" in Figure 2).

When defined, the UI Key value will be saved into the field defined here.



Panel
borderColorblue
borderWidth1
borderStylesolid

Example:

With the configurations above, we will attempt to import the following data in the screenshot below.

Figure 6: Source data highlighting data that will be imported into the target form's database table (master)


Figure 7: Data written into the form table (master)


Figure 8: Source data highlighting data that will be imported into the target form's subform's database table (child)


Figure 9: Data written into the form table (child)


Performance & Offline 

Figure 10: Import Menu Properties - Performance & Offline Settings 


Name

Description

Scope

Caching options are:

  • None: No caching.
  • Application: Cache content by application where all users will see the same content.
  • User: Cache by username
Duration (s)Duration in seconds to cache content, defaults to 20 seconds if applicable.
Panel
borderColorpurple
bgColor#fefaff
borderWidth1
titleBGColor#ddccff
borderStylesolid

Read more at Performance Improvement with UI Caching.



Import UI Element For Joget User Records

The Joget User Mgnt Utility has an import menu to import user records into Joget DX. You can download the app from Joget Marketplace.


Download Demo App

Download the following sample app and CSV file to demonstrate the use of Import Menu.

APP_jusermanager-user-import-menu.jwa  

sample_import_user.csv