Export All: Methods and Formats

Kinetic ERP
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First goal for source control would be to get everything in text format.

Thought I’d start to document the state of affairs. Using looking at what comes down from @klincecum 's excellent ExportAllTheThings, here’s a start:

Anybody ideas how to get/put BAQs / BPM in text?

Looking at this, one starts to think about (de)compression, (de)serialization, how to persist repos on disk, etc, etc

Comments, Edits, welcome.

Kinetic Customizations

Export Methods n Formats

TYPE EXP METHOD COMPRESSION CONTENT FORMAT Serializer NOTES
BAQ DynQrySvc.ExportBaq ZIP baqName.baq binary need txt
FUNCTION ZIP libName.efxj jsonc (min) Deserialize (indent) contains C# code escaped
LAYER system ZIP Apps Content jsonc
LAYER custom ZIP Apps Content jsonc
LAYER pub/draft ZIP Layer Content jsonc
UDCodes ZIP AllCodes.json json
UDColumns ZIP DataTable_UD.json json
BPM DD ZIP NS.Object.bpm binary need txt - why not events.json fmt?
BPM MD ZIP NS.Object.bpm binary need txt - why not events.json fmt?

Refs:

MetaUI Content:

├── combo
├── default
├── Erp.UI.AppName
│   |   ├── dataviews.jsonc
│   |   ├── events.jsonc
│   |   ├── layout.jsonc
│   |   ├── patch.jsonc
│   |   ├── rules.jsonc
│   |   ├── strings.jsonc
│   |   └── tools.jsonc

Apps Content:

├── Apps
|   ├── Ice.UI.AppName
│   |   ├── dataviews.jsonc
│   |   ├── events.jsonc
│   |   ├── layout.jsonc
│   |   ├── patch.jsonc
│   |   ├── rules.jsonc
│   |   ├── strings.jsonc
│   |   └── tools.jsonc

Layers Content:

├── Layers
|   ├── Erp.UI.AppName
│   |   ├── LayerName.jsonc
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How timely. Stay tuned.

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Looks like json input for Ice.BO.BAQDesignerSvc/Update method is a text representation sufficient for both creating new and updating existing.

Here’s a diff of update vs copy input:

Notes:

  • identical schema except
    • update wrapped in Parameters object
  • set QueryID
  • set RowMod = “A”
  • keeping guids is okay