| 1 | Import from calc-sheets |
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| 2 | |
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| 3 | OCCURRENCE |
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| 4 | |
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| 5 | ARB/File/Import/Import fields from calc-sheet |
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| 6 | |
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| 7 | DESCRIPTION |
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| 8 | |
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| 9 | Allows to import data from calc-sheets. |
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| 10 | |
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| 11 | Your data HAS TO contain a column which allows |
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| 12 | to identify a species in arb, i.e. a column |
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| 13 | containing a unique identifier (e.g. the arb species id ('name') |
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| 14 | or the 'acc' field). |
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| 15 | |
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| 16 | Workflow: |
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| 17 | |
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| 18 | * export your calc-sheet in |
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| 19 | * .csv format (comma separated values) or |
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| 20 | * .tsv format (tab separated values), |
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| 21 | * select that file at "Import from CSV", |
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| 22 | * select format type, |
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| 23 | * select which sheet-column/arb-field combination |
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| 24 | identifies the target species, |
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| 25 | * select the match-mode (use '=' to check for equality; see below for details). |
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| 26 | |
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| 27 | Each execution of this function does import the cells of ONE column |
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| 28 | from your file. For each step select |
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| 29 | |
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| 30 | * sheet-column to import and |
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| 31 | * target-field desired. |
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| 32 | |
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| 33 | Additional options: |
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| 34 | |
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| 35 | * how to handle non-matching sheet-rows. |
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| 36 | * whether to ignore rows where matching cell is empty. |
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| 37 | * import scope (marked/all). |
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| 38 | * set marks of modified species. |
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| 39 | * field type. |
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| 40 | |
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| 41 | MATCHMODE |
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| 42 | |
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| 43 | The 'match mode' property allows to fine-tune how the target species |
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| 44 | identification is done. |
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| 45 | |
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| 46 | The default setting of 'match mode' is '='. |
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| 47 | It triggers if the cell content in the selected sheet column matches the |
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| 48 | content of the selected arb field. |
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| 49 | |
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| 50 | Other supported settings require to define how cell and field shall be |
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| 51 | analyzed and compared. |
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| 52 | |
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| 53 | Each of these two possible definitions has to start with the |
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| 54 | character 'c' or 'f' (referring the target of the definition: 'cell' |
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| 55 | or 'field'), followed by either |
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| 56 | |
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| 57 | * an '=', if that target shall be interpreted as single entry, |
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| 58 | * the character 'w' followed by a separator character, if the target |
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| 59 | shall be interpreted as list of multiple entries, or |
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| 60 | * the character 'd' also followed by a separator character. |
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| 61 | Same as 'w' above, but ignores duplicated |
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| 62 | entries, instead of aborting with error. |
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| 63 | |
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| 64 | In the two latter cases, each entry from that list gets compared versus the |
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| 65 | other definition (i.e. 'column' versus 'field' or vv.). |
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| 66 | Depending on the other definition, this either |
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| 67 | |
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| 68 | * compares a single entry with all entries of a list, or |
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| 69 | * all combinations of all entries of two lists. |
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| 70 | |
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| 71 | These comparisons are performed for all combinations of table cells and |
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| 72 | species in the database. |
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| 73 | |
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| 74 | The import algorithm requires that each species in the database matches |
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| 75 | at most with one table row. |
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| 76 | The cells are required to contain unique content in case mode 'c=' is used. |
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| 77 | If the cells are interpreted as lists of entries (using 'cw' or 'cd'), |
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| 78 | the comparison succeeds if one of multiple entries does match. |
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| 79 | Entries occurring in multiple cells can be regarded as "noise" and will be |
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| 80 | ignored, if mode contains 'cd' instead of 'cw'. |
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| 81 | If multiple matches occur (i.e. single entries extracted from one species |
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| 82 | match multiple table rows), the importer aborts with an error. |
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| 83 | |
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| 84 | Please note that opposed to what has been said in the previous section, |
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| 85 | the importer allows that multiple species get assigned to the same table row. |
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| 86 | |
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| 87 | Examples: |
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| 88 | |
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| 89 | * 'f=cw;' |
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| 90 | * 'fw;cw/' |
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| 91 | * 'fw;cd;' |
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| 92 | |
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| 93 | NOTES |
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| 94 | |
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| 95 | The reverse dataflow is available |
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| 96 | via LINK{arb_export_nds.hlp}. |
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