You can export Quality projects to be imported into other repositories. Projects are exported to local or server systems as compressed project definition files (.prj).
Guidelines
- The export process removes entity IDs from project definitions. When you import the project into another repository, new entity IDs are generated.
- All Quality log and statistics files will be included when a project definition is exported, but they will not be included in the files that are imported.
- Projects are exported as compressed files with file extensions of .prj. You will select this definition file when you import the project.
- The server build information for the project is included in the project.xml file in the exported project. To see the information, uncompress the .prj file using a compress/uncompress tool such as Winzip and open the project.xml file in a text editor. The build stamp is displayed in the <server_build> entry.
To export a project definition for import
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From the Navigation or Project View, right-click the project and select Export. The Export Project Options window opens.
Note: If you are exporting from the Projects tab on the Deploy bar, the command is
Deploy to Batch (Export).
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Click the open/close icon (
) to expand or collapse an option block in the window.
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In the Export Location block of the window, select the local or server file system as the export destination.
- To export to the local file system, click Browse to select the destination folder or create a new one.
- If you export to the server file system, the destination folder is always the repository name folder in the server. For example, /export/repository_name/.
- Only repository administrators can import projects that are exported to the repository server. When the BDT and TS Quality are installed on separate machines, you cannot export a project to the local file system with the original source data. You must export it to the server file system or export without the original source data.
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In the Type of Export block, select Export project definition.
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(Optional) To include the data from the first entity in the project, select the Include original source data with export check box.
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Click Export. A message is displayed, indicating that the files are being copied.
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Verify that the project (.prj file) was created in the folder you specified.