by pricerc » Thu Jul 11, 2019 6:08 pm
Mike did supply an extension plugin (in the samples) for 7.0; not sure if it still applies to 7.2.
Otherwise, if you're considering a whole new plugin, then one I posted in reply to my own question about importing from Access is possibly a good base from which to start.
It's not dynamic; it was intended for a specific customer with specific requirements, so I didn't want to spend too much time generalizing it, but I did try to make it easy to extend.
It is a whole form with a data-entry grid that can easily be extended, or left out and replaced with something else, or loaded from an Excel spreadsheet; my goal was just copy-and-paste from somewhere else, but the farspread sheet is easy to populate from Excel or CSV.
The actual 'import' just generates an XML document and uses the standard JIWA Inventory deserializer (which is a key reason why the plugin is in VB, for building the XML).
The data-entry grid uses a combination of combobox and lookup buttons for the categories and classifications my client uses, and would be simple to extend this logic for other fields.