{"id":24260,"date":"2024-02-15T14:53:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T22:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docs.extraview.com\/v25\/book\/importallowedvalues-1\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T10:03:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T18:03:37","slug":"importallowedvalues-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/docs.extraview.com\/v25\/extraview-25\/application-programming-interface-1\/importallowedvalues-1\/","title":{"rendered":"import_allowed_values"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >This API call imports a tab-delimited file of parent and child values into the ExtraView database. 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