Description of the Import dialog - Knowledge Base Office Maker / BiblioMaker

The import window appears when you choose Import from the File menu.

The scroll area shows a list of all the import formats that can be obtained from the current file. In this list, items in bold correspond to predefined formats, while others are custom formats, either because you have associated a special setting to a predefined format, or because it has been entirely created by yourself using the import editor.

On the right-hand side of the window, various buttons allow you to Create a custom import format, Duplicate an existing format, Modify or Delete it. The Add button imports a format saved on disk, Save exports a format to disk, while the Options button displays a dialog of parameters specific to the selected format.

The star at bottom left adds the selected format to the favorites bar .

Once the desired import format has been selected, click on the Import button in the bottom right-hand corner to start importing. Another dialog is displayed that lets you choose the import file.

The majority of import formats expect text files using a tab stop between fields and a line break between records. Their characters encoding is usually Unicode UTF-8. Such files can be created or edited by a spreadsheet such as Microsoft Excel or LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc.