Supported File Formats

The TaticView Data Sources support the following file formats and types for import or update:

Supported Extensions: XLS, XLSX, XLSM and CSV (or other compatible with CSV);

Supported Data:

• Files must contain at least one Date, one Text and one Value column;
• Files must have a maximum of 100MB (20MB for XLS), 128 total columns and 32 text columns;
• Text data type columns have a limit of 255 characters;
• Value data type columns are limited to 11 integers and 5 decimals;
• Files can also contain formulas and expressions, see File Formulas for more information.
• Column headings (headers) can contain a maximum of 50 characters;

CSV Specific Requirements:

• Any field delimiter is supported (with the exception of line breaks);
• Date fields must be in a supported format. Ex.: "dd/MM/yyyy" = 31/01/2013;
• Value (numeric) fields must use a dot "." or a comma "," as decimal separator.

Attention. Very Important

To maintain the correct operation of the created dashboards, some definitions and settings can not be changed later in the data source and its import file:

• New Columns can not be added between the original columns in the file:
  • It is possible to add column to the end of the file;
• Columns names can not be changed in the file header:
  • Column names can be changed in the Input Data Format step, but objects that already use this column will keep the previous name.
  • To update, remove and add again the column to the object;
• Columns can not be removed from the file;
• Columns must maintain its original order in the file;
• Columns data type can not be changed;