Defining Journal Templates

You define an FDM journal template by defining the metadata header that FDM uses to interpret the data contained in the template. The header, which, typically, occupies the first five rows of the template, consists of a series of tags.

Metadata tags are presented in a prescribed tabular format. Row order is important, but column order is not.

The following template contains a metadata header (rows 1–5) and two lines of imported data (rows 6–7).

The image shows a Microsoft Excel journal template as described in the text preceding and following the image.