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Importing and Exporting Job Designs

BlueSky Integration Studio offers an import / export feature for job designs. Both functions use XML files and are dependant on one another. You cannot import an XML file that was not built using the Export function. The import and export functions are found on the File menu.

Essentially, the Export function dumps every attribute related to a job design to an XML file. Some reasons why you might want to export your job designs are:

1. Backup. If for some reason your system is not being backed up on a regular basis, the export function may be a good way, or your only way, to backup your job designs. You can lose your entire server, but if you have the job designs backed up you can simply import them, re-compile, and you are back up and running. (although this is certainly not the suggested approach). (see also: Backup Report)

2. Moving a job from one BlueSky Integration Studio Server to another. For instance, if you are developing your jobs locally using the Personal Server and you want to move the job to a BlueSky Integration Studio production server. Or, maybe you are a consultant building jobs remotely and need to take them with you to a client site. Either way, you would simply Export your job design to an XML file, connect to the destination server and Import the job. The job will be imported as a new un-saved design with a default name of 'Untitled'. Save the imported design immediately, giving it a more meaningful name.

3. Support: If you are having trouble with a job, or you simply have a question about a job's design, you can simply export the job to XML and send us the resulting file. We can then import the job and see exactly what you see which allows us to help you much faster.

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