3 | | It is my understanding that bulk operations can be invoked either from the caTissue web interface or from the command line. |
| 3 | It is my understanding that bulk operations can be invoked either from the caTissue web interface or from the command line. In both cases the invocation is just a trigger mechanism. A piece of caTissue functionality then picks up a local CSV file (a file with a list of comma separated values) that depicts all the changes you want to make; ie: these are the bulk part of the operation. There is another file in an XML format that in its entirety does three things: |
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| 5 | * Describes the comma separated file |
| 6 | * Describes the caTissue domain objects that the changes will apply to. Note the plural: domain objects. |
| 7 | * Connects the csv format to the domain objects, so basically what change goes where and to what. |
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| 9 | Both files are sent to the caTissue application for processing. |