Adding file history import descriptors
To save engineering time, this procedure creates a single file import descriptor, which you can duplicate to create additional
descriptors.
Prerequisites: You are working in
Workbench connected to a
Supervisor station. You have one or more Excel or other delimited files to import. You added a FileNetwork component to your station.
- Expand and double-click Histories.
- To create a file import descriptor, click New.
The New window with the Type to Add property opens and click OK.
- Select the
ExcelCsvFileImport type over the DelimitedFileImport type whenever the source file is a CSV type that was created using Microsoft Excel.This provides more support for importing complex CSV-formatted data for example, including data that incorporates comma usage(s)
within data fields.
The second New window opens.
- Configure the properties for this descriptor referencing a File that is patterned like the other delimited files you wish
to import and click OK.
- To import the file, right-click the descriptor and click .
- Adjust configuration properties of that descriptor until it executes (imports a history) properly without a fault status.
NOTE: The Timestamp Format property may take some tweaking.
- Duplicate your working import descriptor.
- Before executing the duplicate, change its
File reference, History Id, and whatever other properties you wish to keep unique.