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The options to choose from are

Add conditional field

Create a new field with the value of the selected field. When the value of that field is empty, the value of the fallback field will be used.

Add field

Add a new field with a fixed value.

Append text value

Allows prepending and appending text to field values

Clean field

Cleans a text field using a specific cleaning option. All cleaning options include white space, commas and periods.
Clean number removes all non-digit characters.
Clean text removes all special characters like dashes and dots.

Copy field

Can be used for when you want one field from the source to map to multiple fields in the destination (for example: address which can be both visit and postal).

Current date time

This transformation can be used to fill a field with the current date and time

Format text value

Formats the value in the field.

Map listConverts each possible value of an input field into an item from a specific list in the destination.

Merge fields

Merges the input fields into newly defined output fields.

Remove fields

Prevents the selected fields from appearing in the output.

Rename fields

Renames the title of the field and leaves the value unchanged.

Replace24248429

If the field matches the specified value it will be replaced by a new value. For example: if the input value is 'OK' it can be replaced by 'TRUE' and used to turn interests on.

Skip24248429

If the field matches the specified value the record will be skipped

Split field

Splits a field with a separator and adds a new field with the selected segment(s)

You can find a detailed description of this transformation here

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The added transformations can be edited or removed at any time, see below.


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NOTE: If you are adding transformations to an existing profile with mappings in place and choose to use the Rename field transformation you will see the message as shown in the picture below. 
This means that mapping is no longer valid, due to the renaming. 
This can easily be fixed by clicking the Remove Invalid Mapped Fields button and map the field to the correct field.

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THE OUTPUT RESULTS

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For our import, we have chosen to add a field Code with a fixed value 123.

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The result can be seen on the Configure fields page.

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Append text value

The “Append text value” transformation allows for prepending and appending text to field values.

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Clean field

In the example below, we have chosen the transformation 'Clean field' to clean the column with phone numbers. As clean option the Clean Number field is selected.

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The Address field from the Import file will also be used for the postal address. This can be achieved by choosing the Copy Field transformation.

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The result can be viewed on the Summary page. The Address column from the import file can be used twice.

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Current date time

This transformation can be used to fill a field with the current date and time.
In this example, we will fill a user-defined field with the latest update by DataBridge. 

First, choose the Transform 'Current date time' and fill in a field name. 

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The next step is to map the new field to a SuperOffice field. In this example, we use a User Defined Field called 'DataBridge Import Date'. 

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After running the Import job, the current date and time are filled in in the Udef of SuperOffice.

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Format text value

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Upper caseAll in upper caseHELLO YOUTUBE
Lower caseAll in lower casehello youtube
Capitalize firstFirst letter in capitalHello YouTube
Capitalize first decapitalize restFirst letter in capital, rest in lower caseHello youtube
Capitalize wordsFirst letter of each word in capitalHello YouTube
Capitalize words decapitalize restFirst letter of each word in capital, rest in lower caseHello Youtube
TrimTrim will remove all leading and trailing white-space from the value in the fields


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We have chosen the format 'Upper Case' for the Company field. And this is the result in the Configure fields.

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Map list

Converts each possible value of an input field into an item from a specific list in the destination. This transformation is an enhancement for the Replace transformation so you do not have to use multiple Replace transformations anymore.

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In this example, the fields Address and Number will be merged into a new output field Street address. As a delimiter, a space is used.

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On the Configure fields page, you can see the result of the merge.

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Remove fields

Prevents the selected fields from appearing in the output. This transform makes the most sense for Export, more info

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In the picture below you see the preview of a file with the column header 'Bedrijf'. With the transformation 'Rename field' we want to rename this column header from Dutch to English, to the column header 'Company'

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The result can be seen in the Configure Fields page.

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Replace

In this example, the values in the column Partner will be replaced when they match the value OK. This value will be replaced with True. This True value can be used to turn on interests in SuperOffice.

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On the Configure fields page, you can see the result of the replace transformation.

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Skip

With this transformation, you can choose to skip a record when a specified value is matched.

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Split field

Splits a field with a separator and adds a new field with the selected segment(s)

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