Fixed Length Files can be much more than the files you can import into an Excel spreadsheet. Some applications export Structured Fixed Length Files with a structure like this

         File Header
               Document Header
                      Line
                      Line
                      Line
               Document Footer
         File Footer

Each field in the file is defined by the start and length of the field within the line.

These files contain information in the File Header as well as in the Document Header and the Lines, and this has made the interpretation and import of this type of file very cumbersome, often requiring a programmer to make a program to convert these files.

With EDIView for TaskCentre you can use the Fixed Length File tools to read and create files like this, and either import them into an ERP system or use some of the other EDIView for TaskCentre tools to convert them to a format you can use for importing into something else.

With EDIView for TaskCentre it is easy to define the format of the files using the interactive Interchange Editor where you specify the start position and length of each field in the line in the various sections of the file.

This type of files is seen when working with Bank Integration (eg. payment files) and import/export files from ERP systems, where objects such as invoices can be exported and imported through Structured Fixed Length Files.