You can define one or more entries in a spreadsheet and import them. The steps are:

• Prepare your spreadsheet (below).
• Navigate to the entry you want to import under
• From the entry popup menu select "Import"
• Under "Type:" select "CSV Import". You can either provide an XLSX spreadsheet or a CSV file.
• Press Submit

The upload can either be an XLSX or a CSV. Here is an example collections2.xlsx spreadsheeet.

• Any line in the spreadsheet that starts with "#" is ignored.
• The header must have a "type" and a "name" column.
• The header may have a "description" column.

Here is an example:

#this is a comment
type	name	description
type_archive_collection	collection 1	Some description
type_archive_series	series 1	Some other description
	series 2	Some more description
type_archive_file	file 1	Some file description
	file 2

You can view and search for entry types at the /repository/entry/types.html page. Clicking on the type ID will copy the ID to the clipboard where you can paste it into your spreadsheet.

The type does not have to be repeated. If there is no value specified then the previous type is used. There may be an "id" and a "parent" column. This defines the entry hierarchy. So here we have a collection with id "c1". The parent of the series entries "s1" and "s2" is the collection. The parent of the "file 1" entry is the series "s1". The parent of the "file 2" entry is the series "s2".

type	name	id	parent
type_archive_collection	collection 1	c1
type_archive_series	series 1	s1	c1
	series 2	s2	c1
type_archive_file	file 1		s1
	file 2		s2

One or more metadata types can be added. Create a column of the form:
metadata:metadata type ID
The available metadata can be viewed at /repository/metadata/types.html. Clicking on the type ID Here we are defining an archive_subject and an archive_note. The values can be ";" delimited, so, e.g., we are adding two subjects - "subject 1" and "subject 2". If the metadata has multiple fields then seperated the field values with a ":". For example, the archive_note metadata takes two values - the note type and the note. So here we are adding one archive_note with type="Scope" and note="Some scope".

type	name	metadata:archive_subject	metadata:archive_note
type_archive_collection	collection 1	subject1;subject 2	Scope:Some scope

Entries may have fixed properties. For example, the Archive Collection entry type has a Collection number, a Form number, a Shelf location and a Size. These properties can be set by having a column of the form:
entry_type.column
The entry_type. prefix is optional. If an entry created does not have that property then it is ignored.

For example:

type	name	type_archive_collection.shelf_location
type_archive_collection	collection 1	Some shelf collection

The column names can be viewed from the /repository/entry/types.html page. Click on an entry label to see the entry type details, e.g. /repository/entry/types.html?type=type_archive_collection.