Saving and Using Templates During Import
A template is a set of import settings stored in a file.
It’s no use wasting your time on selecting the same settings each time you import data. Select once, save multiple settings to a file, and use it to have customized import without efforts.
For example, you need to import data stored in text format into an existing table once a day. You can set up the import options once, and next time all you need to do is to select Text import format and a location of Source data and click Import. To illustrate the case, let’s import .txt Source file to an existing table create a template, and then use it.
Creating Template
- Open the Data Import wizard and select the Text import format and a path to a .txt Source file.
- Move to the Destination table wizard page and select a Target PostgreSQL connection, a schema, and a database. Select Existing table and in the drop-down list select the table.
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On the Options wizard page in the Skip lines field, enter 3 to start importing the Source data from the 4th line. As there is a header in the Source with column names, let’s specify its position, otherwise, the imported columns will get default names - column1, column2. Enter 2 in the corresponding field. Select to import only even lines and Fixed width type of splitting for the Source data.
- On the Mapping wizard page, you can see that dbForge Studio has mapped all the Source and Target columns, as all of them have the same names.
- Set Universal sortable date\time format for the Source data. On the Data formats wizard page, clear the Autodetect Date and Time format checkbox and select the format from the drop-down list.
- To start importing the data, click Import.
- Click Save Template at the bottom and specify a name and a location of a template file in the Save As dialog. Let’s call it _txt_template. This template will appear in the User templates section.
Loading Template:
- In the Templates section on the first page of the Data Import wizard, click _txt_template, which was created by following the aforementioned steps.
- Select Text import format and a location of Source data.
- On the Destination table wizard page, select the Target connection and database.
- Select Existing table and in the Select the table drop-down list.
- Move to the Options wizard page and see the Skip lines and Header position fields and Fixed width splitting type already selected. The same happens with mapping and a date\time format on the other wizard pages.
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