7.4.8. External reports and data processors

When dumping/loading the external data processors (reports) you need to understand the process of type information in XML files when applied to batch mode. If the external data processor (reports) reference to the configuration objects, when dumping such data processor (report) to files, types of such references shall be dumped as a unique type IDs. Therefore, when loading from such files the type will be determined only if the data processor is loaded to the same configuration or to the configuration, which is the child object of the configuration, from which the dumping has been performed. The types will be defined incorrectly in other cases.

In order to avoid this dumping and loading must be performed after specifying the infobase connection parameters in the command line of Designer batch mode. In this case the text type representations will be output in the dump files instead of the unique IDs. In order to have the reference to a real configuration type in the data processor generated at loading it is required to specify the infobase parameter at loading. If the loading is performed without specifying these parameters, the type data will be lost.

If the external data processor (report) does not reference to the configuration objects, such objects may be dumped/loaded without specifying the infobase connection parameters.

Dumps external data processor (report) in XML format. Format 2.0 dump is used.

The following parameters are available:

• <dump root file>. Contains full path to the dump root directory. Required parameter.
• <external data processor (report)>. Full path to external data processor (report) in .epf (.erf) format.
• -Format. Specifies dump format:
  • Plain. Linear format.
  • Hierarchical. Hierarchical format (default).

Loads the external data processor (report) from XML format. Format 2.0 dump is used.

The following parameters are available:

• <dump root file>. Contains the full path to the root directory, containing the external data processor (report) in XML format files. Required parameter.
• <external data processor (report)>. Full path to the external data processor (report) in .epf (.erf) format, resulting from the dumping. Resulting file extensions will be determined automatically based on XML files. If the extension is incorrect in the command line, it will be automatically replaced with the required extension.