DXL Importer : weird behaviour or am i missing something?

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Hello

I have tested the DXL EXporter and Importer in order to copy pages, forms, subforms, shared fields from one notesdatabase to another but I got really strange results when trying to import:

(I used DXLIMPORTOPTION_REPLACE_ELSE_CREATE)

  • First time I copy all design elements, everything is ok

  • second attempt (I want to replace existing design elements) : the pages become forms (!), one form generates errors and does not want to be copied (log : No Match found), script libraries failed as well… and sharedfields / subforms / framesets/ImageResources seem to be ok.

Has anybody ever meet such error ???

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Subject: DXL Importer : weird behaviour or am i missing something ??

i never met this error while i am writing a application to export every Desingelement into a single XML file and import it back into a DB.

about a month ago i had a problem with views, somehow they chanced their nams and i had twice the same view ( but slightly modified name ) in my database.

Still i have problems with “private views”.

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Subject: DXL Importer : weird behaviour or am i missing something ??

A page really is a form. It just has a W (“web page”) in the $Flags item. If you somehow lost $Flags, this would account for it.

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Subject: RE: DXL Importer : weird behaviour or am i missing something ??

thank you for your response,

Actually, I have checked with a new DB and I could not reproduce the bug which changed my pages into forms,

BUT pages, script libraries still fail to be replaced during export…

  • I am using 6.02 CF1 -
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Subject: RE: DXL Importer : weird behaviour or am i missing something ??

If you think it might help, I will try to import and re-import one of your badly-behaved design elements to see what happens. Export the design element to a DXL file and send me the file. My e-mail address is in my profile.

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Subject: RE: DXL Importer : weird behaviour or am i missing something ??

That is true that it may be just the lack of a character in $Flags that could turn a page into a form, but clearly that would be a bug and should be SPR’ed. If you have a reproducible case post the DXL or email it to me at dannicch@notesdev.ibm.com and I will SPR it. Same thing for the script library case.

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Subject: RE: DXL Importer : weird behaviour or am i missing something ??

If I export any script library (it can be empty), and try to reimport it unchanged using DXLIMPORTOPTION_REPLACE_ELSE_CREATE, the import fails with the error Note item not found.