Specification

  • The data should be provided as a tab-delimited ASCII text file, one item per line. If saving the file in Excel the format is called Text (Tab delimited) (*.txt).
  • All values are coded as standard ASCII character text, no binary values will be accepted.
  • Non required fields may be left blank. There must be a corresponding tab for each field however.
  • The total number of characters per line cannot exceed 400.
  • Field values longer than the maximum size indicated in the Max Size column in the following table will be truncated to the given size. This will not cause an error in processing unless the total line length exceeds the maximum of 400 characters. However, the field value will simply be chopped off, not interpreted in any way. Please keep this in mind, so that no unwanted invalidation of data occurs as a result. In particular, an Image URL of 200 characters would be truncated to 128 characters. The resulting URL would obviously no longer be valid.