itemManufacturers

Use the itemManufacturers data format creator to export manufacturer data and save this data in the cloud. Depending on the plentyBI edition that has been booked, the raw data file is stored in the cloud for 6 to 48 months. Therefore, the data must be processed before this period of time ends. More detailed information on the storage periods are available on the Managing reports page of the manual. The following tables contain further information about the format.

1. Technical specifications

See Table 1 for further information on the available properties and their corresponding values.

Table 1. Technical specifications of the format itemManufacturers
Property Meaning Value Explanation

dataName

Name

itemManufacturers

Name of the creator process and prefix of the created file.
File name: itemManufacturers-xxx.csv.gz

fileFormat

File format

CSV, GZIP

The data is provided as a GZIP-compressed CSV file (RFC 1952).

limitPage

Lines per request

up to 500

The maximum number of data rows that is written into a single file.

limitDay

Lines per day

up to 500

The maximum number of data rows that is written on one day in total.

earliestPossibleDataDate

Earliest point in time

2020-01-01

Point in time as of which the raw data can be collected. The data is not filtered.

filterType

Filter type

singleDump

One file contains all data.

dataUpdatedAtColumnName

Column header

im_updated_at

The manufacturer data is not filtered because the filter type is "singleDump".

defaultActive

Activated by default

no

The data is only exported automatically in the background after you have activated the creator in the Setup » plentyBI » Raw data menu.

interval

Interval

daily

With this setting, all data that has been changed since the last run is exported once a day, usually during the night.

storableFromPlan

Storage starting from edition

plentyBI XS

Minimum fee plan required for saving the data in cloud storage and making it available via REST.

processableFromPlan

Usage starting from edition

plentyBI L

Minimum fee plan required for making the data available in plentyBI Data Warehouse, i.e. for using, filtering and processing key figures.

2. Data columns

See Table 2 for further information on the itemManufacturers data columns included in the CSV file during raw data export.

Table 2. Data columns of the format itemManufacturers
Property Data type Full name Explanation

plenty_id

INTEGER NOT NULL

plenty ID

ID of the PlentyONE system

im_id (Primary key)

VARCHAR NOT NULL

item manufacturer ID

Manufacturer ID

im_name

VARCHAR

item manufacturer name

Name of the manufacturer

im_updated_at

TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL

item manufacturer updated at

Time stamp of the last update
Date format: MM/DD/YYYY HH:MI:SS TZ