# Setting-up your data

- [Importing your data](/setting-up-your-data/2.-importing-your-data.md): The first stage in the process, importing your data is the most critical and key area when using EasyCatalog
- [Supported data sources](/setting-up-your-data/2.-importing-your-data/supported-data-sources.md): EasyCatalog uses Data Providers —other InDesign plug-ins written to interface with EasyCatalog— to import your data.
- [Data concepts](/setting-up-your-data/2.-importing-your-data/data-concepts.md): Regardless of the source of your data, there are a number of concepts that are common to all data that is imported into EasyCatalog
- [Delimited files](/setting-up-your-data/2.-importing-your-data/delimited-files.md): Importing data from a CSV/delimited text file
- [Excel Spreadsheets](/setting-up-your-data/2.-importing-your-data/excel-spreadsheets.md): Importing the data stored in an Excel Spreadsheet
- [Google Docs Spreadsheets](/setting-up-your-data/2.-importing-your-data/google-docs-spreadsheets.md): Using a Google Docs Spreadsheet allows you to import data from an online shared data source
- [Data from an ODBC-compliant Database](/setting-up-your-data/2.-importing-your-data/data-from-an-odbc-compliant-database.md): You will need to purchase a license of the ODBC Data Provider module in order to connect to an ODBC-compliant database
- [Connecting to the database](/setting-up-your-data/2.-importing-your-data/data-from-an-odbc-compliant-database/connecting-to-the-database.md): The ODBC Data Provider enables EasyCatalog to directly connect to your database
- [Updating the database](/setting-up-your-data/2.-importing-your-data/data-from-an-odbc-compliant-database/updating-the-database.md): Because EasyCatalog understands when the content of individual fields needs to be updated, the ODBC Data Provider supports updating of the database at a field level.
- [XML](/setting-up-your-data/2.-importing-your-data/xml.md): XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a W3C initiative that allows information to be encoded in a structure that computers and humans can understand
- [Enterprise data providers](/setting-up-your-data/2.-importing-your-data/enterprise-data-provider.md)
- [Managing Enterprise Data Providers](/setting-up-your-data/2.-importing-your-data/enterprise-data-provider/managing-enterprise-data-providers.md): We are constantly adding more and more data providers. If you can't find yours, please contact us and we will develop one custom data provider for you
- [Akeneo](/setting-up-your-data/2.-importing-your-data/enterprise-data-provider/akeneo.md): In Akeneo PIM, there is a concept that helps you connect any third party you might think of to boost the powers of your PIM. It is called Connections.
- [Sales Layer](/setting-up-your-data/2.-importing-your-data/enterprise-data-provider/sales-layer.md): Sales Layer provides a specific connector that allows EasyCatalog to import data straight from the PIM, and keep it always up to date with a simple click of the mouse.
- [Plytix](/setting-up-your-data/2.-importing-your-data/enterprise-data-provider/plytix.md)
- [Custom data providers](/setting-up-your-data/2.-importing-your-data/custom-data-providers.md): Creating an Enterprise Data Provider Script For JSON data
- [Common errors and warnings](/setting-up-your-data/2.-importing-your-data/common-errors-and-warnings.md): Below are common import errors and their possible resolutions.
- [Data caching and the workspace folder](/setting-up-your-data/2.-importing-your-data/data-caching-and-the-workspace-folder.md): EasyCatalog doesn't require a permanent connection to your data –by caching your data in a local  folder, you can continue working with EasyCatalog even when your data source is unavailable
- [Field options](/setting-up-your-data/field-options.md)
- [Opening the field options dialog](/setting-up-your-data/field-options/opening-the-field-options-dialog.md): The Field Options dialog can be accessed in a number of ways
- [Available field options](/setting-up-your-data/field-options/available-field-options.md): The Field Options dialog is split into a number of sections
- [The format pane](/setting-up-your-data/field-options/available-field-options/the-format-pane.md): The Format pane allows you to specify the field's type
- [Alfanumeric](/setting-up-your-data/field-options/available-field-options/the-format-pane/alfanumeric.md)
- [Number](/setting-up-your-data/field-options/available-field-options/the-format-pane/number.md)
- [Percentage](/setting-up-your-data/field-options/available-field-options/the-format-pane/percentage.md)
- [Currency](/setting-up-your-data/field-options/available-field-options/the-format-pane/currency.md)
- [Custom](/setting-up-your-data/field-options/available-field-options/the-format-pane/custom.md)
- [Hyperlink](/setting-up-your-data/field-options/available-field-options/the-format-pane/hyperlink.md): EasyCatalog can insert hyperlinks into your document, which will then appear when exported as an interactive PDF.
- [Imported text](/setting-up-your-data/field-options/available-field-options/the-format-pane/imported-text.md)
- [Date/Time](/setting-up-your-data/field-options/available-field-options/the-format-pane/date-time.md): The format of the date/time stamps in the existing source data can be changed to anything you may need.
- [Barcode](/setting-up-your-data/field-options/available-field-options/the-format-pane/barcode.md): EasyCatalog includes support for all major barcode types.
- [QR Code](/setting-up-your-data/field-options/available-field-options/the-format-pane/qr-code.md): The contents of a field can be output as a QR Code using InDesign’s QR Code functionality.
- [Formatting rule](/setting-up-your-data/field-options/available-field-options/the-format-pane/formatting-rule.md)
- [Tabular](/setting-up-your-data/field-options/available-field-options/the-format-pane/tabular.md)