Historical Q&A Feed | Emplifi Documentation Center

This optional feed is used to import pre-existing Q&A data into Emplifi Ratings & Reviews Community Q&A.

To import pre-existing Q&A data, you must provide data files to your Emplifi Customer Success Manager for questions, answers (if any), and replies (if any). Accepted file formats are comma-separated (.csv), tab-separated (.tsv), and Excel (.xlsx).

Questions Data File

A question is always associated with a product.

Header	Required?	Description
Question ID	Yes	Unique identifier for the question.
SKU	Yes	Product SKU.
Text	Yes	Question text.
Submission Date	Yes	Date the question was submitted. You can include the time, but we will truncate to date only.
User name	Yes	Name of the question asker. We prefer first name and last name, but display name is acceptable. If necessary, we can use generic data such as "[company name] shopper".
Status	No	Display status of the question. Can be anything that indicates a two-part division between displayed questions and hidden questions. Examples: `True` and `False` `published` and `unpublished` `y` and `n` `1` and `0` If you have more than two statuses, you must explain which statuses should map to displayed and which should map to hidden.

Answers Data File

An answer is always associated with a question and a product.

Header	Required?	Description
Answer ID	Yes	Unique identifier for the answer.
Question ID	Yes	Unique identifier for the question.
SKU	Yes	Product SKU.
Text	Yes	Answer text.
Submission Date	Yes	Date the answer was submitted. You can include the time, but we will truncate to date only.
User name	Yes	Name of the answerer. We prefer first name and last name, but display name is acceptable. If necessary, we can use generic data such as "[company name] shopper".
Status	No	Display status of the answer. Can be anything that indicates a two-part division between displayed answers and hidden answers. Examples: `True` and `False` `published` and `unpublished` `y` and `n` `1` and `0` If you have more than two statuses, you must explain which statuses should map to displayed and which should map to hidden.
Staff	No	Boolean. Indicates whether this is a staff answer.

Replies Data File

A reply is always associated with an answer, and is indirectly associated with a question through that answer. Users can submit replies to answers or replies to other replies.

Header	Required?	Description
Reply ID	Yes	Unique identifier for the reply.
Answer ID	Yes	Unique identifier for the answer.
Parent Reply ID	No	Unique identifier for the reply this reply is responding to. Enables conversation threads. Leave empty when replying to an answer.
User name	Yes	Name of the replier. We prefer first name and last name, but display name is acceptable. If necessary, we can use generic data such as "[company name] shopper".
Status	No	Display status of the reply. Can be anything that indicates a two-part division between displayed replies and hidden replies. Examples: `True` and `False` `published` and `unpublished` `y` and `n` `1` and `0` If you have more than two statuses, you must explain which statuses should map to displayed and which should map to hidden.