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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 17, 2020

Add the possibility to use the import specifications created in Controller Classic

At this moment, import specifications in Controller Web doesn't allow to use some elaborate operation like "IF", temporary fields,... It's a blocking point for a lot customers to use Controller Web.

Needed by Date Sep 1, 2020
  • Guest
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    Jan 11, 2021

    What's missing is the ability to leverage an import specification, created in the Controller Client, in Controller Web. So for any import specifications created in the Controller Client a user will still need to access Controller Client to perform the data import and therefore will not be able to use Controller Web

  • Admin
    PAUL Allen
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    Aug 21, 2020

    In order to facilitate new functionality in importing - updating lookup tables in real time and drill to detail - we need to create a new import module. We understand that the web import has limited functionality and we are prepared to consider additional features as enhancement to it. What we will not be able to do is leverage the Controller Classic import specifications because of technical reasons.

  • Guest
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    Aug 4, 2020

    I support this request. It is extremely time consuming to recreate the import specifications and lookup tables.

    Therefore we do not use Controller Web.

    Jürgen Radecke

  • Admin
    Maximilien de Chestret
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    Jun 25, 2020

    Can you please indicate what's missing in controller web to fulfill the majority of customer's needs in regards of import specification? Thanks