Feature: Templatize settings and enable skip to step

[kartik-v]

First of all, congratulations on a great library and thanks to everyone involved in the creation of the components.

The feature I wish to present is templatizing a previous uploaded mapping/configuration to a saved setting and reusing it to skip to steps.

The use case will be a standard XLS file (say from a bank statement) - and you have a standard format for Citibank and another standard format for another Bank XYZ.

As a start will these be possible to save as a template and use that as an initial state

• Ability to save column mappings
• Ability to save header row position
• Ability to skip and/or hide certain rows based on a callback function - (e.g. clear/hide rows with date field null)
• Ability to skip to the step (say step 3 or step 4 directly after a file is selected).

[kartik-v]

I see the initialState setting to achieve some part of above - but still see bit of challenge separating the settings from table data in file. For example, the header row, column mappings should be separately configurable - any leads to help if I missed something will be great.

[masiulis]

Hey @kartik-v, thank you for a detailed description, sorry for a late reply. I think this can be split into multiple issues:

Ability to save column mappings

If you already know the column name exactly, you can add it to alternateMatches and it will get matched automatically. Storing what matches the user has selected is outside of this components scope, but you can always get the matched columns in matchColumnsStepHook, store them, and next time reuse them as alternateMatches.

Ability to save header row position

I think that's a good feature to have, I will add it.

Ability to skip and/or hide certain rows based on a callback function - (e.g. clear/hide rows with date field null)

You can remove rows based on this logic in matchColumnsStepHook step before rows go to the validation step.

Ability to skip to the step (say step 3 or step 4 directly after a file is selected).

I can add flags to skip steps:

• Skip header row select step - default selected header row will be configurable as mentioned previously.
• Skip column select if everything was matched automatically.
• Skip validation step if no errors were found.