Oracle Fusion Technical: Reports, Data, Integrations and Extensions · Module 7 · FBDI: the file-based loader end to end
Finding and reading the right template
Lesson 64 of 177 · 2 min
TEMPLATES ARE VERSIONED AGAINST RELEASES AND CHANGE WITHOUT ANNOUNCEMENT. A column is added, a column is widened, occasionally a column moves. Loading with a stale template produces a rejection that names a column — or, worse, a load where every value after the changed column is one position out and the data lands in the wrong fields. Get the current one from Oracle's file-based data import reference for YOUR release, not from a shared drive and not from the last project. The reference page names the release; that is the check. How to spot a stale one, in order of speed: compare the column count and the header row against the reference; check the template's own version cell, which most carry; and load one row into a test environment before preparing ten thousand. The one-row test is the habit worth building. It costs five minutes, it exercises the entire six-step…
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In this module: Module 7 · FBDI: the file-based loader end to end
- 1The FBDI sequence, and why order mattersFree preview
- 2Finding and reading the right template
- 3Mandatory columns, and the ones that only look optional
- 4Preparing the file without corrupting it
- 5Loading the interface tables
- 6Running the import and reading the output
- 7Errors: finding the row that failed
- 8Correcting and reloading safely
- 9Master data versus transactional loads
- 10Volume: loading a hundred thousand rows
- 11Proving the load landed
- 12Rollback, and why there usually is not one
- 13What breaks: six FBDI failures
- 14Lab briefing · A supplier and invoice load