AR System Import is a fat client

Fat client

A fat client is a computer in client–server architecture or networks that typically provides rich functionality independent of the central server...

 for Remedy's

Remedy Corp

Remedy Corp was a software company that produced the Action Request System and various applications therein. Remedy is now the Service Management Business Unit of BMC Software.-History:...

 Action Request System

Action Request System

BMC Remedy Action Request System is a client–server software application development environment from BMC Software . Action Request System uses a third party database for storing data in tables...

 that is used to import data. Only administrators of the AR System are allowed to use the import tool. The import tool uses the merge action of the AR API

Application programming interface

An application programming interface is a source code based specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other...

 to create entries from a .arx or .csv file. This client is only used for importing data - applications, forms, workflow and metadata

Metadata

The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at...

 are imported via AR System Administrator

AR System Administrator

AR System Administrator is a client application of Remedy's Action Request System. It is used exclusively for building, customizing, maintaining, and supporting AR System applications...

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External links

• Remedy
• BMC
• Java System Solutions provide a free Community Edition of their XML Gateway product. This allows one to import any XML data into the AR System with little effort. It also provides comprehensive XML exporting capabilities, allowing users to export data into XML of any format.