Description of Profiles, File Extensions, & MARC Field Protections

Job Profiles

The purpose of the Job Profile is to define the type of import at the highest level.

Elements include name, description, data type, match and/or action specified, tags, and associated jobs.

See Job profiles for more info and Data Import Profile Sharing for examples from the community.

Match Profiles

The purpose of the Match Profile is to define the match between an incoming record and existing record. Match Profiles are associated with Job Profiles and can be used for multiple Job Profiles. 

See Match profiles for more.

Action Profiles

The purpose of the Action Profile is to define specific actions to take on import with the incoming records and/or existing records. Field Mappings associated with action profiles must already exist.

See Action profiles for more.

Field Mapping Profiles

The purpose of the Field Mapping Profile is to map fields of the incoming record to FOLIO according to the actions associated with that field mapping.

See Field mapping profiles for more.

File Extensions

The purpose of File Extensions is to configure which file formats are allowed for import and which are blocked and cannot be imported. If a file has an extension that is NOT in the list, the file cannot be uploaded.  

See File extensions for more.

MARC Field Protections

The purpose of MARC Field Protections is to have a list of MARC fields at the tenant level where information in the entire field or in a particular subfield of that MARC field needs to be remain in the record if there is an update or changes to that record. See MARC Field Protections for more