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The header must consist of a column named “datetime” and 1-n columns having a static name describing your raw parameter.
If you convert from a different table-like dataset your driver could also take over the raw column headers.
The “datetime” column must always be the first column.

datetime    TEMP    SAL

Units may be given in square brackets [], following each raw parameter, separated by a space “ “:

datetime    TEMP [°C]    SAL [psu]

Units are optional but really make sense in this very first step because in the INGEST-to-DASHBOARD workflow they would be automatically
appended to the data.

If you desire to store texts such as sample numbers or comments in your file, you have to append a unit \[text\]!

Expected time zone: UTC

Allowed date formats:

yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS.fff
yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS
yyyy-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS.fff
yyyy-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS

Decimal values, integer numbers or characters (just no tabulators!)

34.56556    23    334.43E-2    SAMPLE1

For use of Data-WS only: The Data-WS only accepts numbers as input for each column except when its unit is "text"column (including number formats such as 334.43E-2) .
If you want to store texts, the column's unit must be \[text\]!
For columns which do not have the unit "\[text" \] all characters or words (such as “inf”, “NaN”, “SAMPLE1”) will result in an import error.