{"id":27605,"date":"2021-12-17T10:02:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T09:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/glossar\/flat-file-integration\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T10:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:06:07","slug":"flat-file-integration","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/en\/glossar\/flat-file-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Flat file integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<nav aria-label=\"breadcrumbs\" class=\"rank-math-breadcrumb\"><p><span class=\"last\">Startseite<\/span><\/p><\/nav>\n<h1><strong>What does flat file integration mean?<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Interfaces via flat file are characterized by a fixed data format (usually .csv, .txt, .xml) and are also used for one-off data imports. In the case of interfaces, this is often used for master data replication and task-related data packages (e.g. booking data records). This integration method is generally available in all ERP and DMS systems and therefore serves as a fallback scenario for interface projects. With flat file integrations, there is no live access to data sources; the specific database fields and table contents are synchronized according to a schedule and stored in a file system by the source system as part of folder monitoring and automatically imported by the target system.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does flat file integration mean? Interfaces via flat file are characterized by a fixed data format (usually .csv, .txt, .xml) and are also used for one-off data imports. In the case of interfaces, this is often used for master data replication and task-related data packages (e.g. booking data records). This integration method is generally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-27605","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/27605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}