Data Exchanger
The Data Exchanger
is a tool used to exchange data
between data sources. It is viewed as a generic exporter. For each
dataset it is possible to choose which attributes to export. It is also possible to change the attribute type if the default conversion is not supported by the the datasources involved.
It is
accessible through:
Tools > Data Exchanger > Advanced... and follow the wizard interface pressing Next after each step.
- Select the data source where the data is stored.
- Select the datasets you want to transfer to another data source.
- Select the target data source.
- Transfer Options step
- On Selected datasets frame there is a list of datasets
to be exported. For each dataset selected you can change or provide
more information on how the datasets will be
transferred and mapped to the target data source as explained in Properties and Constraints frame).
- On Properties frame the Status column of each property shows if the default conversion is supported between the data sources involved.
-
default conversion is supported.
-
conversion must be adapted by the user.
- Click on
to access the Property Converter
Interface and adapt each property changing its name and or type.
- It is also possible to remove
attributes from the list.
- On the Constraints/Indexes
frame it is possible to add
constraints and indexes to the new
dataset. The existing ones are listed and can be removed
. See Constraints and Indexes
Interface for more details.
- Name, Title and SRID (changing this will not cause data reprojection ).
- After all click on Commit to export the dataset to the target data source.
- Check the Data exchange summary that will report the success or failure of the whole process.