The GIT Template Editor allows the user to define an import template for a particular site. We do this because each template contains the actual hard links to the parameter/average interval combination (e.g, dbs ID).

The user defines the following:

• Template Name
• Get parm name from header row? (if Y, which row # is the header row)
• # of header rows to skip before parsing data
• # of footer rows to ignore at end of file
• Line termination (default = CR/LF for Windows, selection allows just LF for UNIX-created files)
• Max # of columns
• Table:
• Row # (if get parm name from header = N) or Header String (if get parm name from header = Y)
• Parameter Template Type or date/time (DATE, TIME, DATETIME)
• Special case: SanDiegoSampleID
• other special cases to be added later
  
• Format (float, or selections for date, time, datetime per windows conventions including international variants)


• A "preview" button allows the user to open an example file and see what the parsing looks like (much like Excel's delimited text import preview)