The purpose of the AcIS->UDAR feed is to populate the alumni office's database with data that AcIS derives; this data is composed of UNIs and email addresses.
The data will be contained in an ascii text file that will be generated nightly by AcIS and available for secure-ftp download by the alumni office. The file will always contain one record for every alum who has been sent to AcIS by UDAR, not just incremental changes.
Each record in the file is a single row (delimited by an ascii linefeed). All fields except the Email Address field are fixed-width, are left-justified, and are space-padded on the right. When a field has no appropriate value, it will be left blank, i.e. a string of spaces up to the field's width.
The format of a row is as follows:
| Name | Width | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Alumni ID | The unique id of this person in UDAR's Advance system. This value will be taken from the Unique ID field provided to AcIS in UDAR's affiliate feed file. | |
| UNI | The AcIS-assigned unique person identifier. Excepting errors from bad/insufficient data, each individual has one UNI which never changes. | |
| Email Address | The email address, as entered by this person, at which he/she prefers to receive mail. This field will terminate in a newline character, and is therefore not constrained in length. If AcIS has no email address on record for the person, the field will be empty (i.e. just a newline character). |