Bundt User's Manual · Bundt Toolset version 1.0.1.0

Export Data dialog box

This dialog box helps you define a data export specification so data can be exported from an instance model into a text file.

Elements

Source class dropdown list Select the class of the objects to be exported. As soon as you select a class, column mappings are inferred (see Infer below).
Target file name text box Enter the file name where exported data will be written to.
Browse button Allows you to browse for a target file name.
Column mappings panel
(list) list Displays the columns that will be exported into the target file. For each column, the mapped feature and a title are given.
Add New button Shows the Add New Column Mapping dialog box to create a new column mapping.
Infer button Automatically infers column mappings for the selected class. You can select whether you want column mappings for attributes, semi-associations, or all features.
Delete button Deletes column mappings. You can select whether you want to delete only the selected column mapping or all column mappings for attributes, semi-associations, or all features.
Move Up button Moves the selected column mapping up in the list.
Move Down button Moves the selected column mapping down in the list.
Properties button Shows the Column Mapping Properties dialog box to modify the selected column mapping.
Options panel
Use column headers check box Check this box to include column headers as a top row in the target file; leave it unchecked for no headers row.
Use row object identifiers check box Check this box to include object identifiers as a leftmost column in the target file; leave it unchecked for no identifiers column.
Use multilingual texts check box Check this box to include multilingual texts in the target file; leave it unchecked to use single default-language texts.
Default perspective qualifier qualifier picker Pick a perspective qualifier to use as default when the source objects contain perspectives, or leave blank for unspecified.
Default phase qualifier qualifier picker Pick a phase qualifier to use as default when the source objects contain phases, or leave blank for unspecified.
Column separator combo box Select or enter the text to use as column separator.
Value delimiter begin combo box Select or enter the text to use as begin delimiter for data values, or none for non-delimited values.
Value delimiter end combo box Select or enter the text to use as end delimiter for data values, or none for non-delimited values.
Collection separator combo box Select or enter the text to use as a separator within data values when these are composed of multiple contents.
Language separator combo box Select or enter the text to use as a separator within data contents when these are multilingual.

Proceed

As soon as you click OK, ModelDesigner attempts to:

  1. Create the target file
  2. Iterate over the objects of the selected class
  3. For each object, extract the data specified by the column mappings
  4. Format the extracted data according to the selected options
  5. Write the formatted data to the file

See Also


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