Question to Lone Wolf about Import/Export file details

[Bidmaron]

Farling, can you explain your usage case? There is nothing stopping you from "reimporting" now

[Farling]

Originally Posted by Bidmaron

Farling, can you explain your usage case? There is nothing stopping you from "reimporting" now

All the snippets and topics need tagging with their own UUIDs which don't change from one import to another, otherwise all the existing snippets and topics will get duplicated by the second import.

[Zaphod Beebledoc]

I know this is a bit convoluted, but if you exported the topics once you have them in RW, you would have the UUID...

[Farling]

Originally Posted by Zaphod Beebledoc

I know this is a bit convoluted, but if you exported the topics once you have them in RW, you would have the UUID...

You would then still need to match them back up to the original topics in the source XML :-o

[Bidmaron]

Farling what is your use case? You can export and reimport now

[Farling]

Originally Posted by Bidmaron

Farling what is your use case? You can export and reimport now

My use case is importing data from Obsidian Portal, where I am creating my own XML file to be imported. In this case I will have to create the UUIDs manually from some other uniqueness provided by Obsidian Portal (likely to be a hash of the URL of the thing being converted) so that a subsequent OP backup can be re-imported to update the existing data in the realm with the latest changes.

(Which is the whole point of this thread, import of our own data not export and import of RW data.)

[kbs666]

Hopefully Rob will answer the question if it is asked directly,

Can RW import an XML file if it was not created by RW but is in the correct form. We can surely provide some form of UUID's and signatures but they would not be what RW itself expects, obviously, unless LWD reveals how those are created.

[Bidmaron]

What is to stop you from creating a bogus realm with a bunch of blank entries, exporting them and comandeeeing the uuids for import?

[Silveras]

Farling is working from a previous answer to that question. He asked previously if manually-created XML is possible to import. It is.

As I understand the present conversation:

The problem he has is that if he wants to re-extract from the same Obsidian Portal source later, he has no way to automatically put the uuids in place in the XML other than 1) exporting the imported data from Realm Works just to get the uuids and 2) manually updating the new extract from Obsidian Portal with the uuids so that imported records from the new extract are recognized as updates of the existing topics, and new duplicate ones are not created.

[kbs666]

Originally Posted by Silveras

Farling is working from a previous answer to that question. He asked previously if manually-created XML is possible to import. It is.

As I understand the present conversation:

The problem he has is that if he wants to re-extract from the same Obsidian Portal source later, he has no way to automatically put the uuids in place in the XML other than 1) exporting the imported data from Realm Works just to get the uuids and 2) manually updating the new extract from Obsidian Portal with the uuids so that imported records from the new extract are recognized as updates of the existing topics, and new duplicate ones are not created.

Could you link to that post I missed it.