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Bringing your existing records into OmniBurrow

OmniBurrow has three ways in, and which one you use depends on what your records look like today. A spreadsheet or an export from another program goes through program import; paper pedigrees and pedigree PDFs go through pedigree import; a ZIP you exported from OmniBurrow itself goes through restore from backup. In all three, nothing is written to your herd until you approve a review screen.

Which tool do you need​

You have…Use…What comes in
A .csv, .tsv, .txt, or Evans .xml export, or your own spreadsheetProgram importRabbits, litters, weights, contacts, finance rows
Pedigree documents — PDFs or photos of pedigree formsPedigree importA rabbit and its ancestors, linked into a tree
A backup ZIP you previously exported from OmniBurrowRestore from backupYour whole account — every record and photo

Most people moving from another program need the first two, in that order.

CSV import​

Program import reads a delimited file or an Evans XML backup, works out which program produced it, and maps the columns for you. Four profiles ship: Evans Rabbit Register, Kintraks, Everbreed, and a generic profile for everything else, where you map the columns yourself.

Detection is automatic. OmniBurrow scores your file's column headers against every profile and takes the best match; if nothing scores high enough it drops you into manual mapping rather than guessing. Files up to 10 MB are accepted, and comma, semicolon, tab, and pipe delimiters are all detected.

On the phone, the whole thing — reading the file, mapping it, and writing the records — happens on the device, so program import works with no signal. Only the optional AI mapping suggestion needs a connection.

Pedigree import​

A CSV names a rabbit's sire and dam and stops there. Pedigree import takes a PDF or a photo of a pedigree form, reads the ancestor boxes out of it, and builds the multi-generation tree — the only way to get grandparents and great-grandparents in from paper. You review and correct every extracted field before committing.

This one needs a connection, because the document is uploaded for processing.

Restore from backup​

Restore from backup takes an OmniBurrow export ZIP and nothing else — it is not a route for another program's data. Use it when you are recovering an account or moving to a new device.

Order to do things in​

Herd first, pedigrees second

Import your herd file first, then your pedigree documents. When pedigree import commits, an extracted ancestor is linked to a rabbit you already own if the registration number or ear tag matches exactly — so importing the herd first means pedigrees attach to your existing rabbits instead of creating a second copy of each one.

  1. Export from your old program. If it exports one file per screen, keep them separate — one record type per file imports most cleanly.
  2. Import the herd file so every rabbit exists with its ear tag and registration number.
  3. Import the remaining files — litters, weights, contacts, finances — on the mobile app.
  4. Import pedigree documents last, so ancestors match the rabbits already in your herd.
  5. Work through the flagged rows from each review screen: unmatched breeds, unresolved parents, and dates the parser could not read unambiguously.
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