Today we are very excited to announce a brand new UI for Dromo!
We've given the Dromo Importer a complete makeover, with a strong emphasis on usability - from a new customer importing their data for the first time to a support engineer running imports every day.
The new UI is available today, to everyone! To upgrade your importer, you only
need to upgrade your Dromo SDK package (dromo-uploader-js, dromo-uploader-react,
or dromo-uploader-angular) to version 2.0.0 or higher.
That's it! This update is 100% backwards compatible with all existing Dromo installations. This includes any style overrides you have configured to match Dromo to your branding.
Here are some highlights from the new UI:
Streamlined header row selection
Your users can quickly click on the row containing column headers.
Simplified and intuitive column matching
Users can see at a glance columns that were automatically mapped and what columns remain.
Column data is hidden by default, but just a click away for reference.
We've also added a new feature enabling users to add required columns as empty columns for files that may be missing required columns entirely.
An all-new data wizard
We've moved select field value matching from the column matching step to a new step dedicated to bulk operations to get your imported data into shape.
Select value matching has been supercharged with a much more powerful AI matching algorithm.
This is just the start for the Clean Data step - we're excited to add more great tools to enable your users to fix up their imports in record time.
Rich error export in the review step
Of course, the Data Review step got a glow-up to match, and also learned some new tricks! Users can now export all data in its current state, or just rows with outstanding errors, directly from the Review step.
Errors are exported as richly formatted Excel files, with all of the validation errors intact and available for reference.
We've been perfecting the new Dromo UI for months, and we can't wait to hear what you think about it. Give it a try today!
Excel parsing in private mode
With the release of V2, we are also bringing another great feature out of beta.
The Dromo Uploader now offers parsing of Excel files (XLS and XLSX), even in private mode, out of the box. By parsing the Excel file directly in the end user's browser, we're able to accept every common spreadsheet format without any data ever being sent to Dromo's servers.
At Dromo, we're deeply committed to data privacy, and this is another key part of our trustless architecture.
Browser Excel parsing is enabled by default in v2, and you can customize this behavior with the browserExcelParsing setting.