Preparing Data for Upload

During the upload process, Birst scans your data sources to identify the structure of the sources in terms of column names and types.

A data source should contain data arranged in columns and rows. Avoid empty columns or rows.

By default, Birst interprets the first row of a delimited or Excel file as column headers.

Upload data by one or more of the following methods:

Upload text files. See Uploading Flat Files.

Use Infor Connect to upload files larger than 20MB or to connect to RDBMS sources.

Use an Application Connector to extract data from cloud-based sources such as Salesforce.com.