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03-02 C-370 BURND Use Service File rules to define a package of rules for importing the contents of character-based files into your Pega 7 system. This facility can import a wide variety of record-oriented files to create or update objects in your system, including text files, Comma-Separated-Value files, and completed PDF forms.
Pega 7 cannot directly process or parse binary files, such as TIFF files created by incoming faxes. Typically, these are best handled as email attachments. CLINIC 9/17/07
Use the Application Explorer to see Service File rules in your application. Use the Records Explorer to list all Service File rules that are available to you.
A package of Service File rules operates with a file listener (Data-Admin-Connect-FileListener class) that references the package. To parse input in the files, a Service File rule may reference Parse Structured, Parse Delimited, and Parse XML rules.
Service File rules belong to the Integration-Services category. A Service File rule is an instance of the Rule-Service-File rule type.