Integrating SailPoint with Generic Flat File

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Revised Date: 31 May 2024

This document is designed to give specific information about the requirements and field definitions needed to get a working instance of a Generic Flat File source in IdentityNow. This is an integration between a Flat File source and IdentityNow that reads data from a file. The file contains all the relevant information about the accounts.

This is the companion discussion topic for the documentation at https://documentation.sailpoint.com/connectors/flat_file/help/integrating_flat_file/introduction.html
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It would be helpful to explain why this “Generic Flat File” connector (still) exists, and what is the benefit of using this instead of the “Delimited File”, which is also a “Flat File”.

It is clear that this is not obvious: Delimited File vs Generic Flat File

As a non-native English speaker, I thought that “Generic” would allow me some flexibility, but it seems that is not the case.

Maybe it would be helpful to add a short sentence in the UI to make it clear that this is very rigid and the “Delimited File” should be preferred.

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Hi Andrei! Thank you for your input. We’ve created a Jira issue to track the effort and we’ll update the comment thread when it’s been addressed: CONDOCS-5225