FAB-DIS is an exchange format primarily used by companies doing business in France and facilitates the sharing of quality product information between manufacturers and distributors. A FAB-DIS file is delivered as an Excel file containing seven tabs. For more information on FAB-DIS, search the web.
In STEP, two tabs are supported: ETIM and MEDIA. Once exported, these tabs can be combined with the manually added additional five tabs, obtained from other sources, into one FAB-DIS file. For imports, data from the ETIM and MEDIA tabs is saved to STEP.
To access the 'FAB-DIS' option, the 'fabdis' component must be activated on your system. Contact Stibo Systems for details.
Format Availability
FAB-DIS format is available for selection in:
- IIEP - refer to Creating an Inbound Integration Endpoint here
- Export Manager - refer to Creating a Data Export here
- OIEP - refer to Creating an Outbound Integration Endpoint here
Mapping
This format requires creating a data map between STEP and the data being processed and may also include data transformations. For details, refer to Data Mapping here.
For inbound mapping examples, refer to the FAB-DIS Import Format topic here.
For outbound mapping examples, refer to the FAB-DIS Export Format topic here.
Inbound Data
The FAB-DIS format is not available from Import Manager, but you can achieve the same result by manually running an IIEP using the FAB-DIS Importer processing engine.
Ultimately, Web UI provides the easiest FAB-DIS data import via the File Loading Widget here. Web UI monitoring is available via the Recent Background Processes Panel here. Information about both of these is included in the Web User Interfaces documentation.
IIEP
Minimum manual mapping is required when configuring the IIEP since the FAB-DIS Importer processing engine automatically maps the ETIM attributes included in the FAB-DIS import file.
Important: To import successfully, a FAB-DIS file must have only the expected columns, and no additional columns. For details, refer to the Prerequisites section of the FAB-DIS Import Format topic here.
Outbound Data
Export Manager
OIEP
