What's the difference between Importacular Insights and Importacular NXT?
Importacular Insights allows you to see and report on all the imports you have done in Importacular in the database view
Importacular NXT is our new importing tool that works with and from within RE NXT's webview
What's the difference between looking up data and fetching data?
Fetching data is fetching data from the data source.
Looking up data is determining the matches based on your Matching Rules
Where have the field settings gone?
These have been split up into two separate columns:
Field Update Conditions for selecting how new and existing records should be updated. This also includes Conditional Update Values.
Field Manipulations for choosing how to clean up and manipulate the incoming data to make it compliant with your RE. This includes Text Casing, Date Format Transformations and Data Transformations
How can I change my Criteria Sets?
We have renamed them in the hopes to make things easier to understand. Rather than having a Criteria Set that contains a number of other Criteria Sets, we have renamed it so that we now have a 'Record Lookups', that contain a number of 'Matching Rules'. What's more, rather than a one-size fits all approach, when we release the Relationship Data Destinations (individual relationships, Organisation Relationship, Solicitor/Canvassers, and Tributes) you will be able to build or select a Record Lookup with their own unique set of Matching Rules for each relationship you add to your template. Giving you more control and a better understanding of what is happening.
Can I use the same templates I have in Importacular (Classic) with Importacular NXT?
We are working on a template transformer for launch (not Beta). However, there will be some caveats when you do. Not every field in Database View is present in Webview and vice-versa so you will still need to review the 'imported' templates in Importacular NXT, before you try to import with it.
Also, not every Data Destination will be available straight away. If your template contains mapping to a Data Destination that isn't currently available, the template will not do what you expect it to do.
Can I validate my template before I import?
We have provided more tools at the Template Building stage and in the Import Review stage to help you better understand what data is due to be imported, hopefully reducing the need for a validation stage, thus speeding up the process.
It may be worth highlighting that Blackbaud's SKY API behaves very differently to the Database View API and import validation isn't something that the SKY API provides. If we were to provide one, we would have to built it up over time and may behave differently to what is on Classic.
Can I adjust my Record Lookup, specific to the data I'm importing?
Not at the first stage of the Beta, but yes you will when Importacular NXT is released to everyone
Will I be able to schedule my imports?
Not at the first stage of the Beta, but yes you will when Importacular NXT is released to everyone.
I see all the field settings that I am use to, but where are all the Area Settings?
Over the course of the beta testing we want your input when it comes to Area Settings to see if we can improve on what is available in Importacular Classic
Why can't I add an Address Custom Field?
Blackbaud have not included Address Custom Fields in their SKY API. As such, it is not an area we can provide.