The purpose of the Job Profile is to define the type of import at the highest level. Think of Job profiles as the overall container for the import job - it defines the type of input data and the action(s) to be taken by Data Import based on (optional) matching behavior.
The two pieces in a job profile are the match profile and the action profile.
Not all job profiles include match profiles - for example, if you just want to create brand new records, you don't need to match on existing records so a match profile is not needed.
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Examples of job profiles shared from the community can be found at Data Import Profile Sharing |
Elements of the job profile include
- Name (Required): Name of the job profile.
- Description: Describes the job profile to help you and others identify the profile and what the profile does
- Accepted data type (Required): Select the format of the incoming record (MARC, EDIFACT)
- Add Match and/or Action: Select the match between incoming and existing record or an action to do on import. In order to add a match and/or action, that match profile and/or action profile must already exist.
- Tags: can be assigned to job profiles and then used as filters
- Jobs using this profile: displays the most recent import jobs that used this particular job profile