Cross-references to Application-specific File Parser Content
This section discusses the cross-references to application-specific documents that contain content related to File Parser.
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Understanding the File Parser Process
PeopleSoft Financial Aid incorporates the File Parser utility automatically in its External Awards process to convert data from an external award data file into external award staging tables. The process uses a predefined context definition delivered by the PeopleSoft system. You do not have to define the field conversion or set up the context definition. However, you will need to create file mapping definition using the External Award context definition to populate the target external award staging tables.
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Setting Up a Context Definition
The PeopleSoft system currently delivers a predefined External Award Load context definition for the Financial Aid External Awarding process. The context definition identifies the fields in the External Award staging table that can accept converted external file data. You can modify the context definition to prevent fields from being visible (Visible for Mapping check box), but you should not make any other modifications to the predefined context definition. Changing the record or field names or their values or making any other modifications can cause the External Award process to fail.
Running the File Parser Process
The External Awards process in PeopleSoft Financial Aid automatically incorporates the File Parser utility to convert data from an external award data file into the External Award staging tables. Do not run the File Parser process separately, as described in this document, for the External Awards process. Instead, after you have created your specific file mapping definition for your external award file, use the External Award Staging process to load external award data into the staging tables.
The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) functionality uses File Parser to import HESA Validation Kit errors.
Constituent Transaction Management (CTM) uses File Parser for offline transactions.
See Understanding CTM.