Creating content export packages

Any user with administrative privileges can export views, queries, product groupings, and enumerations to create a content package. These can then be deployed on any Rational® Engineering Lifecycle Manager project where needed.

Each content type (views, queries, product groupings, or enumerations) is exported as a .zip. The views, queries and product groupings packages contain a text file describing the content type and the time of export, and xml files for each object that has been exported. The enumerations package contains a text file describing the content type and the time of export, and a custom enumerations file.

The .zip packages can be combined into content packages if multiple content types need to be deployed to a project. A content package can be deployed by following the instructions in Deploying a content export package.

Exporting views

  1. Open the Views page.
  2. Select the views you want to export.
  3. Click the Export icon: export icon
    screen capture showing several views selected and the location of the export icon
  4. The selected views will be saved to a zip file that follows a naming convention of the number of files in the package, the content type, and then an ISO 8601 timestamp. For example, the package created in the above image created July 31 2013 would be called: 3_views_2013-07-31T15_45_03Z.zip

Exporting queries

  1. Open the Queries page.
  2. Select the queries you want to export.
  3. Click the Export icon: export icon
    screen capture showing several queries selected and the location of the export icon
  4. The selected queries will be saved to a zip file that follows a naming convention of the number of files in the package, the content type, and then an ISO 8601 timestamp. For example, the package created in the above image created July 31 2013 would be called: 3_queries_2013-07-31T15_45_03Z.zip

Exporting product groupings

  1. Open the Products > Product Groupings page.
  2. Select the product groupings you want to export.
  3. Click the Export icon: export icon
    screen capture showing several product groupings selected and the location of the export icon
  4. The selected product groupings will be saved to a zip file that follows a naming convention of the number of files in the package, the content type, and then an ISO 8601 timestamp. For example, the package created in the above image created July 31 2013 would be called: 1_product_grouping_2013-07-31T15_45_03Z.zip

Exporting enumerations

  1. Open the Enumeration Manager dialog box to export enumerations from the Queries edit screen and from the Views, Add Parameter screen.
    • In the My Queries or Shared Queries screen, select a query containing an enumeration. Click the pencil icon to edit it, and start the Enumeration Manager from the Parameters section by selecting More... under any enumeration parameter.
    • In the My Views or Shared Views screen, select a view containing an enumeration. Click the pencil icon to edit it. Start the Enumeration Manager from the Page Properties accordion tab. Under the Parameter section, click the pencil icon for the parameter that contains the enumeration you want to export.

    Version 4.0.4 and earlier

    Open the Enumeration Manager dialog box to export enumerations from the Queries edit screen. Select a query containing an enumeration, click the pencil icon to edit it, and launch the Enumeration Manager from the Parameters section by selecting More... under any enumeration parameter.

  2. In the view, click the Export icon: export icon
    Image showing how to start the Enumeration Manager from a view Edit Parameter window, and the location of the Export icon.

    In a query, click the Export icon, as shown in the following image.

    4.0.4 Users: Click the Export icon: export icon
    Image showing how to start the Enumeration Manager from the query Edit window, and the location of the Export icon.
  3. In the Export Enumerations dialog box, select the enumerations you want to export, and click Export.
    Image showing the Export Enumerations dialog box
  4. The selected enumerations are saved to a zip file that follows a naming convention of the number of files in the package, the content type, and then an ISO 8601 timestamp. For example, the package created in the above image created July 31 2013 would be called: 4_enumerations_2013-07-31T15_45_03Z.zip

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