Custom Data Formatter

DataPort uses Data Formatters to obtain and distribute the data related to Imports and Exports.

Data Formatters are .NET objects that implement the Data Formatter Interfaces contained in the TRIMDataPortCore.dll.

Out-of-the-box, DataPort contains a Data Formatter that writes to and reads from Tab Delimited text files. Customers and partners have the ability to write custom Data Formatters to suit the format of the data that they need to import into Content Manager and dictate the format of exported data. This ability, combined with the command line driven nature of DataPort Project execution allows for great flexibility.

For example, the sample Data Formatter (available from Content Manager API Support) imports electronic documents into Content Manager from a specified directory. It is possible to create a scheduled task in Windows that would run a DataPort project to import all the documents contained in the specified directory every morning.