Hi SMART community,
We’re doing some clean up work for an existing site and have decided that it’s best to start with a new CA rather than the complications of editing a very messy old data model that’s been re-built several times.
There are some attributes we want to keep that are seriously long lists (like species lists). Is there a way (outside of merging the data models and having to delete everything we don’t need) of exporting/importing just a few attribute lists to the new CA.
Thanks
Hi Lisa,
In short, no. There’s no simple way to do this.
However, you can try to do this using the XML files exported when you export your data model. Try exporting your original data model, open the exported XML file in a text editor, maintain the basic elements of the data model structure, but remove all the categories and attributes you don’t want to import to the new CA. The save and merge into the data model in your new CA.
Similarly but alternatively, you can create your new data model, export this to XML, and try to copy over the values from the long-list attribute (from the exported XML of the old data model), then re-import.
This might take a little trial and error. If you decide to give this a go make sure to back up your databases first.
Cheers,
Alex
Thanks, Alex. I’ll give those a go. Hopefully something that might be possible with SMART 8…Would also be great to be able to make additions to an attribute list and have it automatically update on other CAs within a CCAA set up without having to do so manually or keep merging the data model. But that might be asking for too much!
Cheers