Load / Save definitions
Integration artifacts are grouped into projects so that it is easy to
organize them and to share them among different integration tasks. You
can easily copy actions and data sources from one project to another when
both projects are running on the same application by dragging and dropping,
see Drag or copy and paste. However
it is sometimes useful to share these resources among projects running
on a different instance of the application, i.e. running on a separate
system. In this case dragging or copying is not possible and you will
instead use the Save definition and Load definition options. Load definition
imports a new resource into a project while Save definition saves it for
export to another system. For example you may want to reuse an activity
or data source which has already been defined for a different task. It
is often quicker to alter an existing action or data source than to define
a new one from scratch. Or it may be that someone else has developed a
data source or action elsewhere that you can reuse. In these cases you
can copy a resource from one system to another by first using Save definition
in the original project, then using Load definition in the new project
to import the file.
The Load/Save definition process
is similar to the Report option in that it constructs
a file containing information about an action or a data source into a
special file format for export. The format is especially designed so that
the resource can be imported into another project and translated into
the original resource. This second project may be quite separate, running
on a different copy of the application. If the action is a data transfer
action, then both source and target data sources are included in the import/export
file. If
an activity is imported, i.e. its definition is loaded into a project,
then all actions and sub-activities comprising that activity and the activity's
workflow structure are loaded.
Please note that in order to load, actions or data sources
must have been previously saved from system releases 2.13 or higher.
To
save an action or data source for use in some other project, 
: select the action or data source and either choose
Save Definition from the right-click menu or choose the corresponding
icon from the toolbar. You then see the Save window which lets you browse
to a destination file name, see Save/Open.
When you have completed the save, an XML file is created containing the
definition of the action or data source, allowing it to be loaded into
some other project, see below.
To
load an action or data source into a project, 
: select
the Actions or Data Sources node on the Explorer tree then right-click
and choose the Load definition
from the right-click menu or else choose from
the toolbar. You then see the Open window which allows you to browse to
a file to open, see Save/Open. When
you have navigated and selected the file you want to load into the current
project, you see a blue line indicating the loading with a full line completed
when it has taken place, normally a very quick process. The
new action or data source is now created in the current project, and has
all the properties of the action or data source saved to the loaded file.
Same name: If you are loading
an action or data source that is already in your system, or saving a file
to a file name that already exists, you will see a warning message that
gives you these options:
Re-use,
Re-use all: Choose this if you do not want the new element. In
this case the existing item will be used. Choosing "Re-use all"
will re-use every existing component element with the same name as an
existing element, without further prompting
New,
New all: Select to copy the new item, and use this item as a component
of any copied complex actions or data sources. In this case the new element
will be given the name Copy of...., i.e. "copy of" is appended
to the name so that it can be distinguished from the element that already
exists. Pressing New all accepts this response to all elements with the
same name, without further prompting.
You may also see this message when you load an activity that uses the
same data source more than once.
Related topics include Actions
overview, New action,
Save, Reports, Drag or copy and paste