Understanding .Sif File Rules

Understanding .SIF File Rules

General Considerations on SIF Files

The number of option entries that can be sent by the Specifiers and received by Khameleon is unlimited.

Several of the current Specifying Programs allow you to set the field sizes that the Specifier works with for product and option descriptions, so they will be compatible to field sizes in the dealer business system being used.

Creating notes and tagging in the Specification programs

If there is a defined tag field feature in the Specifier product, the data that gets written out to the SIF file in the TG = record…(in CAP, this field is 8 positions), will be written as the first note line to the Khameleon item note field (2000 character field).  A provision has been provided in Khameleon to allow for multiple note records to be passed from the user’ specifier program into Khameleon via the SIF Wizard.  Within Khameleon (Invoice Sub-entity default fields), a designated character or string of characters can be defined as the value to identify note records pertaining to an individual item.  

The Wizard program compares the contents of the Option Number field on the SIF file to this character string and when they match, the data in the corresponding option description record is interpreted as an item note.  Sample SIF File:

These item notes are stored in the Khameleon order line item note field.  The number of line item notes stored is limited to a maximum of 2000 combined characters.  The size of the option description field written out to the SIF file is 30 characters (potentially 66 OD lines could be stored in the 2000 character order line item note field)

Again, for each order line item, multiple lines of notes up to a combined maximum of 2000 characters can be imported and stored.

These item notes (up to the 2000 character limit), get printed on the quote/order confirmation, purchase order and customer invoice documents.