This section provides an overview of what's new for Data Import releases:

What's New in Data Import v1.2

The following improvements and fixes were made in Data Import v1.2.

DI-480 - Major enhancements to PowerShell pre-processing, including security-based sandboxing. For more information see Integrated Custom File Processors.
DI-929 - Ability to import Template Sharing templates across multiple versions of the ODS / API with same major version of Ed-Fi Data Suite (3.x for example). For more information see Cross-Version Template Sharing.
DI-940 - Currency data handling from Swagger "numeric" type.
Bug fixes and changes based on field reports.

What's New in Data Import v1.1.1

The following improvements and fixes were made in Data Import v1.1.1.

The following improvements and fixes were made in Data Import v1.1.0.

Multi-connection support for multiple ODS / APIs within the same environment or multiple key/secret pairs on the same ODS / API
Update for optional "Supplemental Information" field in the Template Sharing Service
Optional port number for SFTP/FTPS connections
Bug fixes

The following improvements and fixes were made in Data Import v1.0.2.

Updates for compatibility with semantic versioning numbering starting with Ed-Fi ODS / API v5.0.0

The following improvements and fixes were made in Data Import v1.0.1.

Consolidation of Transform Load, File Transfer and File Cleanup service into one service for easier setup and maintenance
New Activity pane to show status of import jobs in the web application
PowerShell integration for row-level or file-level pre-processing (see Integrated Custom Record Processing and Integrated Custom File Generation)
Ed-Fi Product Improvement (Google Analytics and Jira / Ed-Fi Tracker integration, see Product Improvement for more information)
Enhancements to run in SaaS contexts and improvements for running on Azure
EDFI-183 - "Logs tabs with refresh"
EDFI-184 - "Ability to add multiple users"
EDFI-189 - "installation issues on Windows 2012"
EDFI-198 - "ODS/API key/secret debugging"
EDFI-207 - "PowerShell integration (representing multiple field requests)"
Other internal optimizations and performance enhancements

The following improvements and fixes were made in since Data Import 1.0 RC 3 release.

EDFI-178 - "Configuration updated and files up to 200MB tested on Windows Server & IIS 10
EDFI-174 - "URL handling improvements"
Template Sharing Service to allow sharing of metadata for ETL jobs (maps, bootstraps and lookups)
Enhancements to Data Import logging statements, including TransformLoad service
Other internal optimizations and performance enhancements

The following improvements and fixes were made in since Data Import 1.0 RC 2 release.

The following improvements and fixes were made in since Data Import 1.0 RC 1 release.

The following improvements and fixes were made in Data Import since the Tech Congress 2019 Tech Preview release.

Full support for both Ed-Fi ODS / API 2.5 and 3.1 (and later version numbers)
Data import capabilities, based on multiple implementor requests, including:
- Import capability for all Ed-Fi objects (previously only the Assessment domain was supported)
- Import capability for Ed-Fi Descriptors
User Interface for CSV to Ed-Fi data mapping function including:
- Support for multiple sub-objects
- Support for optional fields
- EDFI-122 - "Data Mapper unable to determine fields"
- EDFI-105 - "Issues With Data Import Data Map"
- EDFI-89 - "Student assessment score result upload using GUI doesn't fully save JSON map"
Import and export of templates (CSV to Ed-Fi maps, lookups and bootstrap data)
Installation options, providing both EXE and ZIP installation options
- EDFI-98 - "Provide documentation to install under IIS (not IIS Express)"

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