Importing/Exporting Parts Units of Measure

Formatting the Data

The import allows you the opportunity to do a mass update of units of measures associated with parts, their corresponding products, and their bill of material items. The Part UOM import file is a CSV file formatted in a way that Fishbowl knows what to do with the data. If you don't have a file that was exported from Fishbowl, this can be easiest to do using a spreadsheet program.

All fields will be one of two types:

Text - A textual value. May contain any character, but if it contains a line break, comma or double quote, it must be wrapped with double quotes on both ends. If a field is wrapped, all text must be inside the double quotes. Double quotes in the text value must be doubled to import properly
Numeric - A decimal number greater than or equal to zero with up to four digits after the decimal point. The number must not have thousands' separators in it - 1234.56 is a valid number, while 1,234.56 is not.

CSV fields used In the UOM Update file

Column Name	Type	Description
PartNumber	Text	The part number to update. All of this part's products, and the bill of materials it is on will also be updated to use the new uom. *Required*
UOM	Text	The abbreviation of the new UOM the part should use. *Required*

Creating a CSV file

In order to import your data, you must first export it to a comma separated values (CSV) text file. All major spreadsheet programs can export data in this format. If you do not know how to export your data to a CSV file, please refer to the documentation of your spreadsheet program.

When exporting to CSV format, make sure to verify the following:

The data is formatted properly (see the first section)
The file must contain column names in the first row, using the column names in the table above.
Commas are used to separate fields
Text values are surrounded by double quotes