DXL Exporter and Outlines

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I am usign the DXL exporter to export & search notes database designs.

The main problem I am experiencing (there are others) is that outlines do not seem to export properly.

To run the export I create a notesnotecollection and make sure I select all design elements etc. The resulting DXL only contains some confusing elements that contain partial information about the outlines, but not the code elements I am looking for.

I have even created and empty ntf and export everything using Call notesNoteCollection.SelectAllNotes( selectorValue )

Has anyone successfully exported outlines? Also are there any other decent resources on the exporter and SAX parser.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Richard

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Subject: DXL Exporter and Outlines

If memory serves, the DXL exporter code in R6 wasn’t able to export outlines in the “nice” DXL format, but rather in “raw” note format only (which is really only good for round-tripping to be able to import it again properly). Not sure when it will be available in the “nice” format.

PS: DDSearch 2.01 might already do what you want to do (it uses DXL, too)

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/sandbox.nsf/0/f090b24ea76b1c0100256c45003e6396?OpenDocument

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Subject: RE: DXL Exporter and Outlines

Thanks Thomas

Thats a great tool however I am not sure it moves me on as it still cannot search the outlines.

The problem is that when you examin the DXL it appears that only the header information of the outline is exported.

So if I have an outline called “Test” then I can search for “Test” and find it (both in the DDSearch and my code).

However if I create an entry in the outline with a formula say:

REM “FINDME” ;

@all;

and try and search for “FINDME” the dxl search returns blank. It appears from examing the exported DXL that the outline entries are NOT exported.

Frustratingly, our alternative is teamstudio anylyser; this is capable of searching the outlines and does find the “FINDME” above.

Trouble it is VERY slow.

Do you think this means you cannot do a full search using DXL/DDSearch?

Thanks for all your help.

Regards

Richard Spence

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Subject: RE: DXL Exporter and Outlines

"Do you think this means you cannot do a full search using DXL/DDSearch"Unfortunately, yes.

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Subject: RE: DXL Exporter and Outlines

Thanks Thomas

Shame!

My final thought. Is there any way from the entry to detect if the note is an outline?

For instance I create a database that was empty apart from one outline and default views. This bit of DXL seems to be related to the outline

20031211T110138,72+00

20031211T110241,85+00

20031211T110241,82+00

20031211T110241,84+00

20031211T110241,84+00

CN=RGS16420P/OU=IT/O=GSK

CN=RGS16420P/OU=IT/O=GSK

AQYBAAEAAQBIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAEgAUwAACAAAAQAAAAAAAAANAAAARgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

BQAOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFdGVzdCBsYWJlbAABAPb/RAABAAAA

BQAOACoAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKgAHAAoABAA5OTk5BwAMAAUACTFTMlMAAAAIAGYAAwAHAAoAAwAJ

MFIA

test

m

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Is there any way to find out if this is an outline?

Thanks in advance

Richard Spence

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Subject: RE: DXL Exporter and Outlines

The combination of note class “filter” and “m” in $Flags shows that the note is an outline. The data type “1a” shows that the $SiteMapList item contains an outline.