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Use the accounts data format creator to export company data and save this data in the cloud. Depending on the plentyBI edition that has been booked, the raw data file is stored in the cloud for 6 to 48 months. Therefore, the data must be processed before this period of time ends. More detailed information on the storage periods are available on the Managing reports page of the manual. The following tables contain further information about the format.

1. Technical specifications

See Table 1 for further information on the available properties and their corresponding values.

Table 1. Technical specifications of the format accounts
Property Meaning Value Explanation

dataName

Name

accounts

Name of the creator process and prefix of the created file.
File name: accounts-xxx.csv.gz

fileFormat

File format

CSV, GZIP

The data is provided as a GZIP-compressed CSV file (RFC 1952).

limitPage

Lines per request

up to 8,000

The maximum number of data rows that is written into a single file.

limitDay

Lines per day

up to 200,000

The maximum number of data rows that is written on one day in total.

earliestPossibleDataDate

Earliest point in time

2020-01-01

Point in time as of which the raw data can be collected. The data is filtered by the date saved in the dataUpdatedAtColumnName column.

filterType

Filter type

lastUpdate

Data are filtered based on the last update.

dataUpdatedAtColumnName

Column header

a_updated_at

Name of the column that contains the time stamp of the last data update.

defaultActive

Activated by default

no

The data is only exported automatically in the background after you have activated the creator in the Setup » plentyBI » Raw data menu.

interval

Interval

daily

With this setting, all data that has been changed since the last run is exported once a day, usually during the night.

storableFromPlan

Storage starting from edition

plentyBI XS

Minimum fee plan required for saving the data in cloud storage and making it available via REST.

processableFromPlan

Usage starting from edition

plentyBI L

Minimum fee plan required for making the data available in plentyBI Data Warehouse, i.e. for using, filtering and processing key figures.

2. Data columns

See Table 2 for further information on the accounts data columns included in the CSV file during raw data export.

Table 2. Data columns of the format accounts
Column name Data type Full name Explanation

plenty_id

INTEGER NOT NULL

plenty id

ID of the plentymarkets system

a_id (Primary key)

VARCHAR NOT NULL

account id

ID of the company, if available

a_name

VARCHAR

account name

ID of the company

u_id

VARCHAR

user id

ID of the user

a_updated_at

TIMESTAMPZ

account updated at

Time stamp of the last update
Date format: MM/DD/YYYY HH:MI:SS TZ

a_created_at

TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL

account created at

Time stamp of the creation
Date format: MM/DD/YYYY HH:MI:SS TZ
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