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Status Future consideration
Categories Feature
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 5, 2023

Warn user when importing from spreadsheet to ERM when an attribute on the spreadsheet doesn't exist for artifact type

When importing a spreadsheet into RM which included a custom attribute type, the import finished successfully yet the custom field was not populated. I determined that the custom attribute was not attached to the artifact type, therefore the import process skipped it without giving me a warning that they artifact attribute did not exist for the artifact type. I spent an hour trying to figure this out until it finally dawned on me what the problem was. So the steps to repeat this is: create a spreadsheet with an attribute that doesn't exist for the artifact types being imported. The import will end successfully with no warning about the attribute column being missing.

Idea priority High
Needed By Not sure -- Just thought it was cool