Hi All,
I have a process that exports a dashboard and all of its components to XML. It then reads through the XML and creates new objects. The process works when I import the XML by hand. I was wondering if there is a way to have the code:
1) delete objects if they exist
2) import the XML to create the new objects.
Thank you,
Scott
The only method I know that will effectively replace Dashboards is XFProject. Have a look in the Design and Reference Guide and search this forum for more info. This screenshot gives you an idea:
I had looked at that. Do you know if there a method to import and export the xfProj via code?
XFProj has its own XML library: XFProjectWcf
Use XFProjectWcf.ExtractXFProjectFileHierarchy to extract, and XFProjectWcf.StartLoadXFProjectFileHierarchy using similar structure to the code posted for application zip and dashboards.
You would use the XmlLoadWcf library for this. It can load either xml as a string or as a zip file. It runs similar to running a Data Management sequence, returning a TaskActivity object:
Dim task As TaskActivityItem = Nothing
'Execute the XML load and assign the TaskActivityItem
task = XmlLoadWcf.StartLoadXml(si, xmlString, Nothing, String.Empty, SystemXmlFileType.Unknown, ApplicationXmlFileType.ApplicationDashboards, Nothing)
Here it is an example round trip using some of PeterFu's code:
Dim configSettings as AppServerConfigSettings = AppServerConfig.GetSettings(si)
Dim folderPath as String = FileShareFolderHelper.GetDataManagementExportUsernameFolderForApp(si, True, configSettings.FileShareRootFolder, si.AppToken.AppName) & "\" & DateTime.UtcNow.ToString("yyyyMMdd") & "\MetadataExtracts"
if Not Directory.Exists(folderPath) then Directory.CreateDirectory(folderPath)
Dim filePath as String = folderPath & "\" & si.AppToken.AppName & ".zip"
If File.Exists(filePath) Then File.Delete(filePath)
'Set the extract options
Dim xmlOptions as New XmlExtractOptions
xmlOptions.ExtractAllItems = True
'Execute the Metadata Extract
Using dbConnFW as DBConnInfo = BRAPi.Database.CreateFrameworkDbConnInfo(si)
Using dbConnApp as DBConnInfo = BRAPi.Database.CreateApplicationDbConnInfo(si)
Dim zipBytes as Byte() = ApplicationZipFileHelper.Extract(dbConnFW, dbConnApp, Nothing, xmlOptions)
'Append the contents of this workflow profile to the extract file
Using FS As New FileStream(filePath, FileMode.Append, FileAccess.Write)
'Create a binary writer, and write all bytes to the FileStream at once
Using BW As New BinaryWriter(FS)
BW.Write(zipBytes)
End Using
End Using
End Using
End Using
'Load the file back in
Dim task As TaskActivityItem = Nothing
'load the application zip file
task = XmlLoadWcf.StartLoadXml(si, "", Nothing, filePath, SystemXmlFileType.Unknown, ApplicationXmlFileType.ApplicationZipFile, Nothing)