Import Salary Records - What's the best method?

Summary

What are the options now?

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Hi all,

 

I'm a little out of the loop when it comes to the best methods for importing, we would like to import data following a salary review. 

 

I used file based loaded originally creating dat files - am I correct in thinking something has replaced this?

 

I have also used initiate batch loader for importing elements and calculation cards for payroll and seen spreadsheet loader too. Is HCM Data Loader the replacement or FBL, should we be using this? Are there any recommended user guides for this?

 

Also when clicking on initiate spreadsheet load it says we don't have permissions, what roles would allow this to work?