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

What's New in Data Import v1.0.1

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

Updates

• 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

What's New in Data Import v1.0

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

Updates

• 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

What's New in Data Import v1.0 Release Candidate 3

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

Updates

• EDFI-157 - "FTPS issues and labels fixed"
• EDFI-172 - "Year-specific issues fixed"

What's New in Data Import v1.0 Release Candidate 2

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

Updates

• EDFI-152 - FIXED - Error when trying to export template from data import tool
• EDFI-143 - FIXED - TransformLoad gets Exception when parsing NLog.config

What's New in Data Import v1.0 Release Candidate 1

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

New Features

• 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)"

Improvements

• Performance improvements:

  • EDFI-120 - "Data Flow/Import Transform load application failed to process more than 6000 records in single file"
  • EDFI-123 - "Data Import Agent Manual Upload Fails can't access file used by other process"
  • EDFI-136 - "When Admin config is changed Bootstraps and Maps are removed"
  • EDFI-106 - "Data Import Exercise From Lab - Unhandled Exception - logging?"
  • EDFI-142 - "Does data import tool support jagged column result sets"