| Purpose & Benefits |
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| This function lets you import Delivery Addresses for TAS Customers as if you had entered them manually using the TAS function 211. This is particularly useful if, for example, you deal with national Supermarkets and deliver goods direct to stores nationwide. |
Important
The file containing the allocations for import must be output from your third party software as a Comma Separated Variable file (CSV). The order, format and size of the fields/columns for each record are critical for the import to succeed. Full details of the current file specifications, which must be used to output your data from your third party software, are documented separately in TAS Data Transfer File Specs which you can obtain from the Infoplex website, together with a TAS Data Transfer Toolkit containing sample files. It is crucial that you and/or your third party software provider follow these specifications. The specifications also give you useful information about how the program behaves if the import file contains blank or invalid data in the various fields/columns. This software has comprehensive checks to ensure that an import will succeed only if all the critical data is correct.
Initially you are presented with an empty Customer Delivery Address Import form :
Click the […] button to continue.
You get a Select Delivery Address File browse dialogue which defaults to the folder in which your TAS data is stored. Use the Select Delivery Address File browse dialogue to find your ASCII CSV DeliveryAddress file. Select it then click the Open button. Click Import to import the details.
You will be prompted if there were any warnings or errors, and these will be written to a log file named Delivery_Address_Import_YY-MM-DD_NN.LOG.
To troubleshoot any errors, you can use the Troubleshooting ASCII CSV File Data Errors section in the Appendices.
To exit to the main menu click the Cancel button.