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Configuring an export

By setting export properties, you can configure several aspects of your export process. Refer to the API reference documentation for the ExportInstruction class.

Procedure

  1. You can restrict which types of application data the service should export by enumerating the IDs of the application data categories you do want to export. By default, all application data in the source Content Manager instance are exported.
  2. You can configure the export of different BluePrint instances of a shared item: the service can either export the item as an item in the Publication from which you are exporting, or as an item from the originating Publication. You would typically choose the latter option, unless the user performing the transfer has no rights to read from the originating Publication on the source Content Manager, or to write to the originating Publication on the destination Content Manager.
  3. To configure how errors should be handled, you can configure the service to abort the process, skip the item that causes the error, or let your custom code decide how to handle the error.
  4. You can configure one of three increasing logging levels.
  5. You can restrict which dependencies of items are exported using a series of flags. A null value means that no dependencies are filtered out.
  6. To export items intended for import into an older version of Content Manager than SDL Tridion 2013 SP1 HR1 (any version from SDL Tridion 2009 SP1 to SDL Tridion 2013), set the TargetDataContractVersion property to the value "2012". Otherwise, set the property to "2013".