About the APM Family Data Loader

IMPORTANT: GE Digital APM offers baseline data loaders to load data for various modules. Before using the APM Family Data Loader, ensure that a data loader does not already exist for the data that you want to load. For example, the Equipment and Functional Location Data Loader is delivered with the baseline product and can be used to load Equipment and Functional Location records. For a complete list of available data loaders, see the About the Data Loaders topic.

The APM Family Data Loader is designed to load data into any family defined in GE Digital APM, or it can be used to relate records in one family to another family in GE Digital APM based on the relationship definitions defined in Family Management. As such it does not load a specific data model. Because of this inherent flexibility, there is not a data loader source file template defined for every possible combination of entity families and relationships. Instead, there are sample data loader templates, populated with sample data, that can be used as models for creating other data loader templates. You can create APM Family Data Loader workbooks for the following purposes:

Entity Family Data: Used to load data or records.

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Relationship Family Data: Used to relate a record in an entity family to another record in different entity family.

Typically, the data loader workbooks used by the APM Family Data Loader are created using the metadata definitions configured in your GE Digital APM system. Additionally, due to the flexibility of the data loader, there are no standardized validation steps to verify that the data is loaded as intended. When the data is loaded, the APM Family Data Loader will trigger all of the associated field and family level rules, to ensure that the data is valid, but no further validations are done on the data. You should, however, verify that the intended data, records, or relationships are present in the GE Digital APM system after a data load has been completed.