Availability (Integrator)

The availability of the import and export functions is only available to integrators. The rules used are ImportXml and ExportXml.

Limitations

The following has to be taken into account when using the import and export functions:

This is not an upgrade function, only a migrate function. In other words, data can only be exported between applications of the same version number.

Import is applicable to an entire directory at once. All XML files in this directory, beginning with ‘export_’ will be processed.

Both the navigation and menu are exported as integral sets. It is not possible to export part of the navigation or menu structure.

Export Location

To modify the location to where the data is exported, the ExportXml rule sequence has to be changed to point to the desired location. This is done as follows:

System > Rule Library > Rule Sequence > select the ExportXml rule > edit > Rule Invocation > ExportXmlRule > edit > Rule Invocation Parameter > targetDir > edit > change the value to the desired location.

Exportable.properties

The list of exportable models, entities and attributes is defined in the exportable.properties file which is located at jboss/module/com/trax/config-ear/main/config. Note that this list should not be edited, it is there to give you an overview of which inventories will have the export option.

If the exportable.properties file is missing then an error message is be logged in the log file and no export actions will be available.