Question to Lone Wolf about Import/Export file details

Zaphod Beebledoc · January 31st, 2017, 12:53 PM

Not sure how to put this, but here goes.

What details about the import/export files would you want us to discuss on the forums?

Farling's thread about his import from Obsidian Portal has got me excited about the prospect of importing my data from spreadsheet files.

I don't want to say the wrong thing or post screen shots of stuff you would rather be kept off the forum. Hence me asking.

Acenoid · January 31st, 2017, 01:14 PM

Not sure were the big secrets are, if its about copyrighted content and such, you could always use one of those useful quick editors to blur certain text / images / passages out?

I think http://getgreenshot.org/ or https://getsharex.com/ are good.

Tried both.

Zaphod Beebledoc · January 31st, 2017, 02:35 PM

I was thinking the more of technical details of the files, like the XML tags with the data inside. Most of the content I would be trying to put into RW is my own anyway...

Farling · January 31st, 2017, 03:00 PM

There's nothing wrong with creating an XML file structure which matches the export file that you can create from a realm.

I must say that manually creating the XML file from other data is quite hard to do, particularly getting uuids sorted properly.

Zaphod Beebledoc · February 3rd, 2017, 10:22 AM

A thought came to me last night about uuids and signatures. Why not have a substitute for them them indicates to RW that a uuid or signature is needed?

the_redbeard · February 3rd, 2017, 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Zaphod Beebledoc

A thought came to me last night about uuids and signatures. Why not have a substitute for them them indicates to RW that a uuid or signature is needed?

Sounds like a valid feature request that could help those importing content.

Zaphod Beebledoc · February 3rd, 2017, 01:34 PM

Good point, I'll pop it on the Feature board...

Parody · 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Zaphod Beebledoc

A thought came to me last night about uuids and signatures. Why not have a substitute for them them indicates to RW that a uuid or signature is needed?

RW should either create anything you omit or report a problem with the import. You shouldn't have to put in a substitute.

A second import without IDs would probably duplicate everything rather than make any attempt at conflict resolution, but that's just a guess.

kbs666 · February 3rd, 2017, 04:33 PM

I'm pretty confident that RW will not import a file that doesn't contain UUID's in a form that it expects.

Farling · February 3rd, 2017, 11:22 PM

A UUID has a very specific form in terms of hexadecimal characters and "-" separators. I don't think that RW follows the UUID rules about how the digits are chosen, since there is no need for the UUID to be unique worldwide outside of realmworks.

The only UUIDs I have in the OB script are those generated by RW in the first place when I exported the realm structure that I would use for the topics I was creating.

I would like to create my own UUIDs for the topics, so that I can re-import. I may have a look at this later today.

Farling Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Greater London, UK Posts: 2,623 January 31st, 2017, 03:00 PM	There's nothing wrong with creating an XML file structure which matches the export file that you can create from a realm. I must say that manually creating the XML file from other data is quite hard to do, particularly getting uuids sorted properly.
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kbs666 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 1,690 February 3rd, 2017, 04:33 PM	I'm pretty confident that RW will not import a file that doesn't contain UUID's in a form that it expects. my Realm Works videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZU...4DwXXkvmBXQ9Yw
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