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Dromo’s Schema Studio streamlines creating a schema, so you can start working with Dromo.

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Creating a Schema​

Click here to get started with Schema Studio now!
Once you’ve logged into your Dromo account, you can access Schema Studio from your Dromo dashboard. Here, you can create a new schema or update any schemas you’ve previously created. Click Create Schema: Navigate to Schema Studio
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Add a Name

Adding a schema name
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Customize your importer

Next, you can customize the importer your end-user interacts with:Customizing the general settings of your Dromo importerYou can optionally configure the importer’s:
Private mode lets you to control whether user data is sent or persisted through Dromo’s servers. Private mode is only available on the Dromo Pro plan.
You can also optionally customize your importer’s appearance with custom colors. You can preview your Dromo importer’s appearance by clicking Test now in the footer:Use the Test Now button to see your importer
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Add fields to your schema

Next, you’ll define your schema’s fields. You can think of a schema’s fields like columns in a spreadsheet.If you are importing your user-collected data into a database, you’ll want your data to be in the shape your database table expects. This means your schema’s fields usually match the columns in your database. For example, let’s say you have a client database table with two columns for clients’ names and emails. Your schema would have two fields to match your database table; one for our clients’ names and a second for their emails.You can add fields in two ways:
  1. Importing a CSV and letting Schema Studio automatically detect the field and types.
  2. Manually clicking the Add field button. Use an existing file or manually add fields
Once you’ve added a new field, clicking on the name of that field enables you to customize or delete it. You can customize a field’s:
  • Label: The column name your users see in the importer.
  • Key: The field’s unique identifier is this field’s key in the JSON results.
  • Description: A description for this field that your users will see in the importer.
  • Type: The type of data your user should input (e.g., email, date, text, etc.). The options to customize a field
Additionally, you can use validators to enforce rules for the data a user is allowed to import. You can choose to make a field required, unique, follow a particular Regex pattern, or any combination of the above:The validators you can add to a fieldYou can try out your importer settings and fields in real-time using the Test now button on the footer on the screen:Click test now to try our your schemaOnce you’ve customized your schema, click Save schema. You’ll be redirected to the main Schema Studio page, where you can see your new schema:New schema added to total list

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Using Schemas

To start using a schema in your application, click on the angled brackets icon in the Schemas Tab in the Dashboard: Schema icons Copy and paste the pop-up code block into your own website’s code and you’re done! 🎉 You should be able to test the flow now.
You can see your user’s imports from the Imports Tab in your Dromo dashboard.
However, to integrate into your application, you will still need to handle the data, which you can do via the onResult callback. 
dromo.onResults((response, metadata) => {
  // Connect to our database
  db.connect();
  // create new entries in our database using the user's imported data
  db.uploadData(response);
});

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Advanced Usage

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Assigning User Metadata

Currently, your importer doesn’t know who is using it to upload information. If a user uploads data, there is no associated metadata for that user, so all user-related fields are left blank: No set user for an Import However, you can add more context to an upload by setting user metadata about the end user to associate with an import: 
const dromo = new DromoUploader("YOUR_LICENSE_KEY", "YOUR_SCHEMA_ID");

// Create a user object to associate imports to
const user = {
  id: '1',
  name: 'Jane Doe',
  email: 'jane@dromo.io',
  companyId: 'Dromo',
  companyName: '12345'
};

// Associate the above user to this import
dromo.setUser(user);

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Development Mode​

The DromoUploader offers a “development mode” for testing import flows or iterating on finishing touches. Dromo doesn’t charge you for data you import in development mode, but you are restricted to only importing 100 rows for any given file.
Your importer runs in development mode by default if you do not have an active Dromo subscription. To run Dromo in production, upgrade to one of our pricing plans.
You can switch your DromoUploader into development mode using the setDevelopmentMode method, like so: 
<script type="text/javascript">
  const dromo = new DromoUploader("YOUR_LICENSE_KEY", "YOUR_SCHEMA_ID");
  dromo.setDevelopmentMode(true);
</script>
The importer now shows a development mode banner, and all incoming imports are now flagged as development imports and you don’t get charged for them! Development Mode
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