- Via the drag and drop function you can add Objects from the Navigator to the Export Tool dialog. If you add an Aggregation, all aggregated Objects will also be added to the list, and appropriate link rewriting options will be selected. Use the “Remove” button to take an Object out from the list. Below the list of Objects, the target directory has to be selected. Use “Browse” to specify the target directory.
- Click “Export” to finish. After the export has finished, a result screen lists everything that has been exported as well as warning or error messages if anything went wrong. The Export Tool will create two files for every Object, one for the Object itself and one for its metadata (META file, can be opened with a simple text editor, e.g. Notepad from Windows). For complex Objects like Editions directories are created that lists their contents.
- You can optionally save the export specifications (i.e. the list of all Objects exported together with the rewriting methods and file names used) from the result screen.
- Despite the export of a file, the exported file or Object remains in the TextGrid Repository and therefore in the Project it has been exported from.