Hi Tim,
I'd recommend taking a look at this blog. It goes over how you can export/import changes to existing ItemTypes. In general, it's best to export just the changes you've made, and not the entire package. This does require a pretty intense amount of keeping track of your changes, but it's the easiest way to make sure your changes transfer easily and cleanly.
If you don't want to do that, my next recommendation would be to export the entire PLM package and remove the files from the result. It's slightly easier than removing all other references within Innovator.
AJ
Thank you AJ, I'll work my way through that.
Out of interest, how does one also export the items themselves (e.g. parts?) The Aras training package on the partner portal also includes sample data, i.e. xml files with a bunch of part add commands.
Can this be done with the export tool as well or do I need to start getting into AML and / or use the Visual Studio?
Tim
While you can use the export tool to export individual pieces of data (parts), from my experience, it's better to load data through AML queries. Subscribers have access to our Batchloader tool, which makes loading larger amounts of data much easier. With the batchloader you can create an AML template and create spreadsheets with the relevant data you want loaded into your system.
Thank you AJ,
I've been having a go with those and Innovator Admin (once I worked out that this had replaced AML Studio). Looks like a good place to start learning AML! It's a pain to get it to connect, though. Still working on that.
I've also learnt an important lesson when preparing spreadsheets for importing via the batch loader: Create tab-delimited files, not comma-delimited. I had some text fields with commas and that really made things difficult!
I haven't worked out yet if the import tool merges new data to existing items, but I'll work that out with further experimentation.
Cheers,
Tim
