Tools module (import/export, registers)
General information
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The openIMIS tools module provides import and export functionalities for various types of data, in various formats.
The list of currently supported format is:
XLS
XLSX
JSON
CSV
XML
The XML files are handled by in-house code, whereas all the other formats are managed with the django-import-export plugin.
Medical Items - medical.Item
Export
You can export medical items in all supported formats described in the introduction.
Import
To easily import new medical items, you can:
Export the current items in the preferred format
Add the required information for each new item in the next lines.
This way, you don’t need to recreate the file structure from scratch.
You can import medical items in all supported formats described in the introduction.
Currently, the import strategy and the dry run checkbox are taken into account only for XML files. Their value will be ignored for any other type of upload, even if the strategy is required.
File structure
The following table provides the import/export file structure, along with an example of item values.