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======IMPORT JSON FROM FILE======
Category: Import / File\\

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=====Description=====

Import a JSON object from a text file.\\

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=====Action settings=====
^ Setting  ^ Description  ^
|Load file<sup>*</sup>| Fully-qualified file name of the dataset (includes relative or absolute path).  |
|Encoding|ASCII, ANSI (with code page), and other types of encoding. If you're not sure what to choose, try UTF-8 as it's the\\ most common Unicode encoding.|
| Column names  | The method used to name columns in the incoming dataset.\\ Options: //Property name//, //Full JSON path//|
<sup>*</sup> Setting can be specified using a [[:parameters|parameter]].

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=====Remarks=====
This action can import multiple files.  See [[import:fileimportmodes|Importing Multiple Files]] for more information.\\

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=====See also=====

  * [[transformations:importxml|Import XML]]
  * [[transformations:importplaintext|Import plain text]]
  * [[transformations:constructjson|Construct JSON]]
  * [[transformations:parsejson|Parse JSON]]