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Step 3: Selecting items

The third step of exporting content is selecting which items you want to export.

About this task

By default, Content Porter exports not just the items you select in this screen, but also their dependent items. So, for example, if you select a Component, Content Porter also exports the Schema on which the Component is based. To prevent these dependent items from being exported also, go back one step in the wizard and select the appropriate dependency filter(s).

Procedure

  1. In the Select Items wizard step, navigate through the tree to select which items in this Content Manager you want to export. To select all exportable items in the Content Manager, select the top node.
    You have now selected which items you want to export.
  2. If you are exporting External Content Library (ECL) content,
    1. Select the stub Components you want to export.
    2. Optionally, select stub Schemas to be exported and then associated with Components during the subsequent import process. If you do not export stub Schema, Content Porter will instead associate the stub Components with a stub Schema on the destination system.
  3. If you do not want to export all exportable items, you can make selections in the following ways:

    For all nodes, you can do the following:

    • Deselect the node and its contents by right-clicking the node and selecting None from the context menu.
    • Click the Refresh button to ensure that you are looking at the most up-to-date view of the Content Manager items.

    If your node is a Folder, Structure Group, Category or Publication, you can do the following:

    • To select both a node itself and all of its contents, including child nodes, click on the node.
    • Click on the name of a node to see its contents displayed on the right hand side of the screen. You can select or clear individual items on the right. By default, the node itself is included in the selection; to deselect the node but not its children, right-click the node and select Selected children only from the context menu.
    • To select a node without any of its contents, right-click on the node and select Folder only, Structure Group only, Category only or Publication only from the context menu (depending on the type of node you select).
    • To select all contents of a node, but not the node itself, right-click the node and select Children only.

    If your node is a Virtual Folder, you can do the following:

    • To select both the definition of the Virtual Folder (its search criteria) and the actual items returned by the search query at the exact moment you start the export, right-click on the node and select Virtual Folder & Content.
    • To select only the definition of the Virtual Folder (its search criteria), right-click on the node and select Virtual Folder only. (Some or all of the items returned by the search query may still be included as part of an explicit selection, or as dependencies of explicitly selected items.)
    • To select only the actual items returned by the search query at the exact moment you start the export, right-click on the node and select Content only.
  4. Click Next.
    The wizard proceeds to the next step.