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Importing the Customer 360 for Insurance assets

After you extract the extension package, import the Customer 360 for Insurance assets to Customer 360. When you import the Customer 360 for Insurance assets, the import process overwrites the existing Customer 360 assets and your customization.
Note: Before you customize the Customer 360 data model, ensure that you import the extension assets.
You can import the following assets:
Note: Before you import the extension assets, ensure that you belong to the MDM Designer and Designer user roles, but not to the Admin user role.
To import the assets, perform the following tasks:
  1. 1Import the data model, pages, and source systems.
  2. For more information, see Importing data model, pages, and source systems.
  3. 2Configure the flat file connection.
  4. For more information, see Configuring the flat file connection.
  5. 3Import the assets to integrate with Salesforce.
  6. For more information, see Configuring assets to integrate with Salesforce.
  7. 4Import the reference data assets.
  8. For more information, see Importing the reference data.
  9. 5To synchronize batches of Salesforce records in Customer 360, see Processing data in batches.
  10. 6To synchronize Salesforce records in Customer 360 in real-time, see Processing data in real-time.

Importing data model, pages, and source systems

Import the data model changes related to the extension, the predefined custom pages, and the source systems.
Before you customize the Customer 360 data model, ensure that you import the extension assets.
Note: Before importing the data model, pages, and reference data assets, ensure that you are assigned to the Designer, MDM Designer, Reference 360 User, and Reference 360 Business Steward user roles, and not to the Admin user role.
    1In Business 360 Console, click Explore > Import.
    2Navigate to the following file:
    <Extracted extension package>/1_MDM_Assets.zip
    3Click Open.
    4On the Import Assets page, ensure that all the assets are selected, and click Import.
    5On the My Import/Export Logs page, verify whether the import job is successful.

Configuring the flat file connection

To access flat files from the Secure Agent, configure the flat file connection.
    1In Administrator, click Connections.
    2Click infac360ls_conn_flatfile.
    3Verify the directory to store the flat file.
    Default is C:\ReferenceData.
    4Test the connection, and ensure that the connection is successful.

Configuring Customer 360 to process data from Salesforce

Configure Customer 360 to integrate Salesforce and Customer 360 and process the Salesforce records in Customer 360. You can process Salesforce records in batches or in real time. Import the assets into Customer 360 to ingress data from and egress data to Salesforce. You can configure the extension manually, or you can use guided assistance.
Note: Before you import the assets related to Salesforce, ensure that you import the data model related to the extension, the predefined custom pages, and the source system.
To configure Customer 360, perform the following tasks:
    1Import the Cloud Data Integration assets related to Salesforce.
    2Import the job assets.
    3Import the Cloud Application Integration assets related to Salesforce.
    4 Add a Secure Agent to the predefined Secure Agent group.
    5Add the lookup files related to Salesforce in the Secure Agent machine.
    6Import the parameter files.
    7Configure the flat file connection.
    8Configure the Business 360 FEP connector.
    9Configure the Salesforce assets manually or using guided assistance.

Importing reference data assets

After you import the assets for the source systems that you plan to use, import reference data code values in bulk from CSV files into reference data assets.
The following table describes the files and folders in the extracted reference data directory:
File or Folder Name
Description
Insurance
The folder that contains the Insurance lookup code values folders.
Lookup code values are in the following folders:
  • - _1. Contains the parent lookup code values.
  • - _2. Contains the child lookup code values.
Salesforce
The folder that contains the code values folder with the name _1.
LoadReferenceData.py
Python script to import reference data.
To import code values in bulk from CSV files that are available in the extracted reference data directory, run the LoadReferenceData.py Python script.

Prerequisites

Before you import reference data into your system, ensure that you meet the prerequisites.
Complete the following prerequisite tasks:

Importing the reference data

To import all the reference data in bulk, run the Python script.
    1Open a command prompt, and navigate to the following directory:
    <Extracted extension package>/Reference Data
    2Run the following command:
    The jobs to import reference data code values run.
    3To monitor the status of a job, click My Jobs in Reference 360.
    The My Jobs page lists the job instances that are currently running, failed, and successfully completed.