A metadata source file can contain multiple rows for a single element.

A metadata source file can contain row and column delimiters. For example, the metadata source file can contain commas to separate column values and newline characters to separate rows.

Each metadata source file can have a different encoding, such as UTF-8, UTF-16, and ASCII.

A metadata source file can contain metadata in different locales, such as en-us and ja-jp.

The column headers in the metadata source files can contain letters, numbers, and underscore characters.

Each column header must start with a letter or underscore.

The name and the business name of each metadata object in a metadata source file must contain 255 or fewer characters. If the name or business name contains more than 255 characters, Metadata Manager truncates the string to the first 255 characters.

If you do not specify a date format in the load template, date values in a metadata source file must be in the format

yyyy/MM/dd

.