It’s all already plain text. Everything exported is metadata. Open .baq with something like win-rar some of the stuff it makes sense to package other stuff like a dashboard definition it’s not necessary so it’s straight xml.
same goes for bpms
Figured that out because I refused to believe that a simple widgetized alerting BPM could not be moved between different versions of Epicor. Be warned start messing with version numbers to jam stuff across systems I won’t be liable, really know when you should or shouldn’t attempt that but…
Where there’s a will there’s a way