ProductImport and export
Import your fields and export all your data
PropelMapper takes your fields and contacts in from the files you already have, and gives your readings, contacts, reports and photos back as ordinary spreadsheets, documents and archives whenever you ask.
Why export matters before you start
Somebody on your team will ask it, usually the person who lived through the last software change: if this does not work out, what do we get back? Too often the answer turns out to be a database dump nobody can open, or a support ticket. We think that answer should be on the product page, in a table, before you sign up.
So here it is. Readings come out of Metrics as CSV or Excel. Contacts come out as CSV. Every report downloads as a PDF and as a Word file, and a whole farm's report can too. Photos can be zipped for a place or a date range on teams that use the photo gallery. Nothing on that list needs us to do anything.
The other direction matters on day one. Most teams arrive with a boundary file from a previous system, a KML someone made in Google Earth, or a contact list in a spreadsheet. Those come in through the web app, without a call to us.
Setup: what you said and what the report says
A land company moving a new owner's farms in from the previous manager's files.
“The Vos Brothers boundaries came over as a zipped shapefile from their last manager. Imported it this morning, five fields, they line up with the fence lines. Contacts are next, Karen sent a spreadsheet.”
Setup - Vos Brothers
At a glance
Five field boundaries imported from the previous manager's shapefile and checked against fence lines on satellite imagery. Owner contacts to follow from the spreadsheet supplied by Karen Vos.
Observations
Five field boundaries imported from the previous manager's shapefile and checked against fence lines on satellite imagery. Owner contacts to follow from the spreadsheet supplied by Karen Vos.
After your review
Example account: Prairie Agronomy
Importing fields and contacts
Places import from CSV, KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or a zipped shapefile, up to 20 MB per file. You see a preview before anything is saved, so you can check the shapes and names before they land on the map.
Contacts import from a CSV with five columns: name, email, phone, role and notes. Up to 1,000 contacts and 2 MB at a time. If an email address already belongs to a contact, PropelMapper asks you to review it rather than quietly making a duplicate. The whole file is saved together, or not at all, so a half-imported list never happens.
Duplicates that already exist can be merged. You pick the contact to keep, and the other one's places and activity move onto it. Do-not-contact choices are kept from both.
Exporting readings, reports and photos
Metrics exports exactly what the grid shows: the places, the columns and the reading window you picked, as CSV for another tool or as an Excel workbook for a person. A research coordinator can pull every stand count from a trial in the format their stats package wants without asking an advisor to retype anything.
Reports download one at a time from the report page, or as the PDF and the Word file attached when you send them. The Word file is there for the people who need to cut a paragraph into a landlord letter or a loan file.
Formats, sources and availability
- Places in
- CSV, KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile, up to 20 MB per file, with a preview before saving
- Contacts in
- CSV with name, email, phone, role and notes; up to 1,000 contacts and 2 MB per file
- Readings out
- Metrics grid as CSV or Excel
- Contacts out
- CSV
- Reports out
- PDF and Word, per report and per farm
- Photos out
- ZIP download or emailed link, on teams with the photo gallery turned on
Questions about import and export
Do I need to ask PropelMapper for an export?
No. Metrics, contacts, reports and photo archives are downloaded from the web app by anyone on the team who can see them.
Is there an API?
Not for customers today. Data moves in and out through the file imports and exports on this page.
Who it’s for
Operations leads and IT people checking what comes in and out, research teams who analyze readings in their own tools, and land companies taking on a client whose records live in someone else's files.