Difference between revisions of "Export Auxiliary Data"

From IMSMA Wiki
Jump to: navigation, search
 
(28 intermediate revisions by 5 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
−
{| style="border:2px solid lightgray; margin:10px;"
+
{{Note | To export Auxiliary Data your {{IMSMANG}} user account must belong to a role that have [[Defining Roles, Permissions and Users| Auxiliary Data Export]] permission. Contact your {{IMSMANG}} administrator if you have questions on permissions.}}
−
|align="left" style="padding: 5px 10px 5px 10px"| To export country structure areas, explosive ordnance, organisation, or place data, you must have the ''Base Table Export'' permission.
 
−
|}
 
  
−
<p>Base tables contain data for country structure areas, explosive ordnance, organisations, and places. By using the export base tables feature, this data can be saved to files that can then be imported into the handheld device. This provides handheld device users in the field with explosive ordnance, organisations, and places data when entering field reports.</p>
+
Auxiliary data include Country Structure, Ordnance, Organisations, Places, Assistance classifications, Cause classifications and Needs classifications. Auxiliary data is exported in xml format for be used in e.g. [[Portal:Remote Entry | IMSMA Remote Entry]].
−
<p>To export country structure areas, explosive ordnance, organisations, or places:</p>
+
 
 +
To export any auxiliary data you must first create a [[Add a Search Definition|'''search''']] on the data you want to export. Once this is done:
 
<ol>
 
<ol>
−
<li>From the '''File''' menu, select '''Export'''.</li>
+
[[Image:Export aux.png|center|600px|]]
−
<li>From the '''Export''' menu, select '''Base Tables'''.</li>
+
<div align="center">
−
:The Base Table Export window displays.
+
''Search result window''
−
<li>In the '''Exported By''' field, enter a value to display in the Workbench window after the field report is imported.</li>
+
</div>
 +
<li>From the '''Search Results''' window, click the '''Export''' button.</li>
 +
<li>In the '''Export Options''' window, choose if you want to export as text or XML.</li>
 +
<li>If you chose to export as an XML file, set the '''Number of records per file'''.</li>
 +
{{Note|This determines how many records are written to a file before it is broken up into several files.}}
 +
<li>Click '''OK'''.</li>
 
</ol>
 
</ol>
  
−
[[Image:fig178.png|center|500px|''Figure 178. Base Table Export Window'']]
+
[[Image:fig178.png|center|400px|]]
 
<div align="center">
 
<div align="center">
−
''Figure 178. Base Table Export Window''
+
''Auxiliary data export window''
 
</div>
 
</div>
  
−
<ol start="4">
+
<ol start="5">
−
<li>Check the items that you would like to export.</li>
 
−
<li>If you would like to include inactive items, check the export inactive objects checkbox.</li>
 
−
<li>Click the '''Next''' button.</li>
 
−
:The Export Summary displays the number of records that will be exported for each item.
 
−
<li>Click the Export button.</li>
 
−
:The Save window displays.
 
 
<li>From the Save window:</li>
 
<li>From the Save window:</li>
 
<ol type="a">
 
<ol type="a">
Line 29: Line 27:
 
<li>Enter the name prefix for the files in the '''File Name''' field.</li>
 
<li>Enter the name prefix for the files in the '''File Name''' field.</li>
 
<li>Click the '''Save''' button.</li>
 
<li>Click the '''Save''' button.</li>
−
:The .XML files for the base tables are saved to the file and directory that you specified. When the export has completed, the Export Complete window displays.  
+
:The .XML or .txt files for the auxiliary data are saved to the file and directory that you specified. When the export has completed, a message window displays.  
 
</ol>
 
</ol>
−
<li>Click the '''OK''' button.</li>
+
<li>Click the '''Close''' or '''OK''' button, whichever applies.</li>
−
:The Export Complete window closes. An .XML file is created for each item that you chose to export. The file is prefixed with the name that you entered in step 8b.  
+
:The message window closes.  
 
</ol>
 
</ol>
  
−
[[Category:Administrating IMSMA]] [[Category: Managing Field Report Templates, Map and Auxiliary Data for IMSMA Mobile]] [[Category: How To]]
+
{{Note | Country structure, Assistance classifications, Cause classifications and Needs classifications are tree-structures/hierarchies . It is possible to export only part of the tree-structure e.g. only one district but the parents (country and province) must also be exported. You find instructions '''[[Exporting Part of Tree Structure from IMSMANG | here]]'''.}}
 +
{{NavBox Manage Information}}
 +
 
 +
[[Category:NAA]]

Latest revision as of 18:48, 26 May 2017

Note.jpg To export Auxiliary Data your IMSMANG user account must belong to a role that have Auxiliary Data Export permission. Contact your IMSMANG administrator if you have questions on permissions.

Auxiliary data include Country Structure, Ordnance, Organisations, Places, Assistance classifications, Cause classifications and Needs classifications. Auxiliary data is exported in xml format for be used in e.g. IMSMA Remote Entry.

To export any auxiliary data you must first create a search on the data you want to export. Once this is done:

    Export aux.png

    Search result window

  1. From the Search Results window, click the Export button.
  2. In the Export Options window, choose if you want to export as text or XML.
  3. If you chose to export as an XML file, set the Number of records per file.
    4. Note.jpg This determines how many records are written to a file before it is broken up into several files.
  4. Click OK.
Fig178.png

Auxiliary data export window

  1. From the Save window:
    1. Navigate to the directory where you would like to save the files.
    2. Enter the name prefix for the files in the File Name field.
    3. Click the Save button.
      4. The .XML or .txt files for the auxiliary data are saved to the file and directory that you specified. When the export has completed, a message window displays.
  2. Click the Close or OK button, whichever applies.
    3. The message window closes.
Note.jpg Country structure, Assistance classifications, Cause classifications and Needs classifications are tree-structures/hierarchies . It is possible to export only part of the tree-structure e.g. only one district but the parents (country and province) must also be exported. You find instructions here.
Information Exchange
Backup and Restore
Importing and Exporting
Retrieved from "http://mwiki.gichd.org:8090/mediawiki/index.php?title=Export_Auxiliary_Data&oldid=22947"