In an export manifest, you might want to include the assets of associated objects, such as metadata or folders, in the export set. To specify which associated objects of an asset to include in the export data set, specify the include options for the data set.
Use the Include Options window to include in the export data set some, all, or none of the associated objects that an asset depends on, without a requirement to explicitly identify and add each associated object to the export manifest. For example, to export a folder and its contents, specify the include options for the data set to add the folder and its contents to the export data set with one action. You are not required to individually add each object that is contained by the folder to the export manifest. However, if an export manifest or the target object store already contains those associated objects, you are not required to include those objects again.
Include option propagation
FileNet® Deployment Manager include options control individual assets or objects. The include options are propagated from one object to the next as the export operation finds associated objects that are based on the include options on the objects in the export manifest.
To specify the include options of an asset:
This include option is a default include option for the Folder asset category only.
Use this include option when you want to ensure that an object that is explicitly added to the export manifest and is filed in a folder that is the same folder at the destination. By contrast, use the Include contents of folder include option when you explicitly add a folder to the export manifest and want to include its contents.
If this include option is applied to a containable object (document, custom object, or referentially contained folder), the parent folder containment hierarchy (excluding the root folder) is added only if the Include relationships to containing folders include option is also selected. Use this include option on a document or custom object, and select the Include relationships to containing folders include option, to export every folder that contains the object and parents of those folders.
If the Include parent folders include option is not selected and a containing folder does not exist at the destination, the following statements are true:
This include option is a default include option for the ClassDefinition asset category only.
This include option is not a default include option for any asset category.
Before you select this option, consider the following information: