When you have opened the Import job manager or Export job manager (see Accessing the job managers and editors), you can manage the concerning import or export jobs listed.

Sort the list

You can sort the list by clicking the column header you want to sort on. Click the same column header again to reverse the sort order (ascending versus descending).

Creating a new import or export job

Depending on the job manager that you have opened, you can start a new job in the appropriate editor in the following ways:

choose File > New in the menu bar;
right-click anywhere in the list and choose New in the pop-up menu;
Click the button for creating a new job:
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Moving and copying

Select one or more (Ctrl- or Shift-click) jobs, right-click the selection and choose Cut (Ctrl+X) from the pop-up menu if you want to move the selected jobs, or choose Copy (Ctrl+C) if you want to copy the selected files. If you want to paste the cut or copied files in the same folder or elsewhere, then select the desired work folder, right-click the list of jobs in it (or the empty list) and choose Paste (Ctrl+V) in the pop-up menu.

Making import jobs available in adlwin.exe applications

From 7.3 there's a really easy way to make import jobs available for execution from within the Import wizard in your adlwin.exe application. The only thing you need to do is place the import job in the relevant Adlib application folder, e.g. \xplus or \library, and of course make sure that all path settings in the import job point to the proper locations for the database and adapls and such (but that's no different than usual). Also enter a short Description in the import job: this will then be used as the job title in the adlwin application (otherwise the full path and file name of the import job will be displayed).

Now when you start the relevant adlwin.exe application, the import job will only appear in the Import wizard after you've opened the data source for which the import job is intended. For example: if the (Destination) Database option in the import job has been set to COLLECT while the Dataset option has been set to intern, then the import job will only become visible in the Import wizard if you open that wizard from within the Internal object catalogue.

After selecting your import job in the Import wizard and clicking Next, the following page of the Import wizard opens, showing only some of the options of the import job, which you can change if you like, for example to select a new exchange file. The options you change won't be saved in the import job.

Create documentation

To create documentation for a selected job, choose File > Create documentation, or click the button for it:

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A Documentation window will be opened with a detailed description of the current job (all its properties and some file metadata).

The overview is nicely laid out, but if you rather have the bare XML view, you can switch to it through the View menu.
In either view you can print the file via the menu or the button, or save it as XML file.
You may also select the text, or part of it, with the mouse cursor, and copy (Ctrl+C) and paste it (Ctrl+V) in any text editor document.

Deleting import or export jobs

Select one or more (Ctrl- or Shift-click) jobs that you want to delete, and either choose Edit > Delete (Del), right-click the selection and choose Delete in the pop-up menu, or click the button for it:

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Deletion of files is currently permanent: you cannot restore deleted files from Windows' recycle bin.

See also

Accessing the job managers and editors

Editing job properties

Saving modifications

Running import and export jobs