6 2 Work with Export Lists

6.2 Work with Export Lists

LANSA Composer supports creating and using Export Lists consisting of saved lists of any LANSA Composer definitions eligible to be exported.  By defining an Export List you can reliably repeat the same deployment operation over time or for different targets.  You can create, maintain, and delete any number of Export Lists according to your application's needs.

An Export List can also include other Export Lists.  When such a list is exported, LANSA Composer will explode the list (disregarding any circular references) and export the super-set of definitions contained in all the referenced export lists.

To work with Export Lists, expand Deployment in the Navigator and click Export lists. To find out how to locate and select Export Lists to work with, refer to:

Locating and selecting items in the Instance Lists

 

For information on common tasks associated with Export Lists (such as creating, copying, deleting and printing definitions) refer to:

Working with definition items

 

For information on tasks associated specifically with Export Lists, refer to the following headings:

Select Items to be Included in an Export List

 

Select Items to be Included in an Export List

To review or change the LANSA Composer definitions included in an Export list, select the required item in the instance list and then click the Items tab.  The window now displays two further tabs:

• Items:  Expand the nodes to review the available definitions.  Select definitions you wish to include in the Export list by clicking the checkbox to the left of the item so that there is a tick in the box. To deselect an item, click the checkbox again so that the tick mark is removed.  You can use the Select All and Unselect All buttons and the checkboxes next to the nodes to select or unselect multiple items at once.

• Include:  Select other Export Lists that you wish to include in this Export List by clicking the checkbox to the left of the item so that there is a tick in the box.  To deselect an item, click the checkbox again so that the tick mark is removed.  You can use the Select All and Unselect All buttons to select or unselect multiple items at once.

 

Remember to click Save before switching elsewhere in LANSA Composer.