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Saving and loading export, import or undo settings

Content Porter lets you save the settings of a specific export, import or undo for reuse at a later time.

Saving the settings is useful when you want to:

  • perform the same export, import or undo multiple times, or perform a similar export, import or undo
  • retry an export, import or undo of items that initially failed to export or import
Saving settings

You can save the settings of a specific export, import or undo in the Export, Import or Undo wizard. You do this in the wizard step called Summary, just before you start the actual export, import or undo, by clicking Save configuration.

Selecting this option saves your settings, as specified while stepping through the wizard, to an XML file. It does not save the general Content Porter settings, which you see when you click the Settings button.

Alternatively, you can create a special export or import configuration file that refers only to items that failed the export or import.

Loading settings

To use saved settings, in the first screen of the Content Porter wizard, select Load wizard settings from a file and either type the full path and filename of the XML file, or click Browse and select the file in the popup dialog that opens. After loading the file, you can still step through the wizard and make changes to the loaded settings before rerunning the export, import or undo.