Export/import of applications

The application's export and import features allow transferring ready-made business solutions between different environments, e.g. from development to testing or production.

Application export

Exporting an application in Eximee Designer is used to save it as a file that contains all artifacts that make up the application - forms, processes, composite components, scripts, dictionaries, content and other related elements.

Export is available after navigating to the Applications module and selecting an application from the list. The Export artifact button is located on the bar in the top right corner of the screen and is available from any tab of the application's components.

After clicking the Export artifact a dialog window will open, whose appearance and content will differ depending on whether it is the first or a subsequent application export.

After performing the export, the system will generate a file with the .artifact extension and allow it to be saved locally.

First release

In the first export window you should add a version description and review which artifacts, in which versions, will be part of the application. Clicking the Release button will open a system window allowing you to save the artifact to disk (with the option to add a comment to the created version).

Illustration 1. First application export window

Subsequent export

In the subsequent export window we will receive information about the previous export (date and description), and the change list will show the differences compared to the previous export, i.e. the artifacts that were added, changed or removed. If there have been no changes since the previous export, a message indicating no data to display will appear instead of the change list.

Illustration 2. Subsequent application export window with a list of changes from the previous release.

Export history

The Export history button, placed on the bar in the top right corner of the screen, allows you to display a dialog window with the history of all application exports along with the date, description and information about the user who performed the export.

Illustration 3. History of subsequent releases window

Application import

Importing an application allows loading into Eximee Designer a previously exported application file.

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Import of exported application — step 1

On the applications list click the button in the top right corner Import application:

Illustration 4. The "Applications" tab with the import option

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Import of exported application — step 2

In the opened dialog window place the exported artifact (a file with the .artifact extension), then click Import:

Illustration 5. Application artifact import window

After the import is completed the system displays a success message. If the artifact was uploaded to the repository for the first time, a confirmation of its correct import will appear. If an artifact with the same name already exists in the repository, the system will inform that the selected artifact version already exists, however the import will be completed successfully.

The import window is used to load into the repository any artifact previously downloaded from Eximee Designer – it does not have to be an application, it can be, for example, a form, process or script.

Keep in mind that the version of the artifact to be imported should be higher than the version of the same artifact already present in the environment's repository (more about versioning in: Versioning).