Use the CS Export Tool Select Export Content screen (shown below) to set the CS Export Tool's configuration parameters dealing with what folders will be exported from the Content Services source library. You also configure where the content that gets exported will be located in the Content Engine object store.
If you need to restart your migration, you can also set that option from the Select Export Content screen. For more information see the CS Export restartability and Restart a CS Export project topics.
Use the CS Export settings worksheet to gather the required information to run the CS Export Tool.
When you click the Select Export Content button in the Projects screen, the tool reads information from the source CS database and the target object store and after a short delay, displays the Select Export Content screen. Here you specify the content to be migrated from the source CS library to the target object store:
Select the folders to export on the left portion of the screen. When a folder is selected, all folders contained within it are also selected.
NOTE To export documents that are not contained in folders, you must select the “Export folderless documents” check box.
The folder location is specified in the object store where the CS data will be migrated in the right portion of the screen.
When the user clicks the Doc Class Export Filter button, the tool displays the Doc Class to Export screen. for more information about Document classes, see the Doc Classes to Export screen topic.
To restart the Folders, Documents and Versions phase from a previous migration, you must select the Restart From Previous Run check box. The tool then uses the information contained in the restart file to determine its starting point for the phase.
Upon selection of this check box the user is prompted with the following message:
Restarting will cause all of the application configuration parameters to be reset to the values in the restart log. Do you wish to continue?
If you decline (select No) then the state of the check box is returned to unselected and the user is returned to the Select Export Content screen to continue. If you accept (select Yes) then the information in the restart file is used to reinitialize the application’s configuration parameters including those on the Select Export Content screen. In addition all of the controls on the Select Export Content screen that allows you to modify what content will be exported are disabled (Note, the DocClasses button itself is not disabled but when its screen is displayed the user is only able to view which document classes have been selected, they cannot alter their selections).
If you unselect the restart option then the information in the application’s configuration files is restored and any controls on the screen that were disabled are enabled.
Note that any changes you make to the Select Export Content screen prior to selecting the restart option will be lost when the restart option is unselected (e.g. If the original configuration had only one folder selected when the tool initially ran, and then upon restarting the application, the user selects a second folder before choosing the restart option, and then decides to unselect the restart option, only the first folder will be selected. Because the selection of the second folder is never persisted, the selection state is lost).
NOTE The restart option is not intended to be used during a dry run. You will receive an error message indicating that the restart option cannot be selected when the project has been configured for a dry run.
The state of the Restart From Previous Run check box is not persisted.
When you click the Close button, the tool closes the Select Export Content screen and returns you to the Projects Details screen. When you click the Start Export button, the tool begins the migration or dry run. If you selected the Folders, Documents and Versions phase in the Project Details screen and the tool is running a migration, the tool checks security and restart status. It does not check these for dry runs.
The tool checks for the existence of the Restart file. If the file exists but the user did not check the Restart From Previous Run check box in the Project Details screen, the tool displays a screen asking if you would like to restart the tool from the point where it previously stopped. If you indicate you would like to restart, the tool proceeds. If you indicate you would not like to restart, the tool migrates all CS documents.
To restart the Folders, Documents and Versions phase from a previous migration, select the Restart From Previous Run check box. The tool then uses the CS Item ID contained in the Restart File as the starting point for the phase. If you select the Restart From Previous Run check box but the tool is unable to find the Restart file at the location specified by the user on the Project Details screen, the tool displays an error message and does not start the migration. You can then close the Select Export Content screen and reopen the Project Details screen where the Restart file name and location can be changed.
NOTE The state of this check box is not persisted between invocation of the application. Each time the user navigates to the screen to select the content they wish to export (and start a run), they must actively select the restart check box if that is their intended purpose.
Selecting the restart option prompts the user with a warning indicating that the current application configuration options will be superseded by the values in the restart log. If the user chooses to continue, not only are the configuration options reloaded from the restart log but most of the controls on the Select Export Content screen are disabled so as to prevent the user from modifying any of the options that can affect which content will be exported. If the user does not select the restart option, the application configuration information is reloaded from the selected project’s initialization file (ProjectName.ini) and the tool is reenabled to allow the user to make changes.
If there is no User/Group security mapping file, you will receive a warning message. You can choose to continue or to cancel.