John: How about scripting the creation of the similar form? You could use Java, Perl, Python, or maybe even just a shell script using the driver program. Have the script do the File-->Save As.
Not quite a fully functional solution, but maybe the seed of one. --Phil From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of John Sundberg Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 11:12 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Form export and import - renaming ** ***** I THINK DIFFERENTLY --- SOMETIMES THAT IS GOOD -- SOMETIMES NOT ****** Yes - I could just go in and save as... However -- this is a small part of a larger project.... Autogenerate Remedy forms form Lotus Notes forms - :) 1) Auto create table 2) Auto migrate data 3) Auto delete Notes table 4) Party!!! My ***guess*** is that the index references are "unused" (not sure about that) -- but -- if I were to take this def to a new system -- which already had a T189/I189 -- I would imagine this definition would not overwrite those indexes... -- so it is probably safe.... I was wondering if anybody KNEW -- that this was a bad idea. Here is the fundamental problem -- when I export a def of a form -- I get 12500 lines... (IMHO - unusable) Yeah -- probably has 20 fields on it -- but the xml is so crazy it takes 12500 lines to describe... So -- WHAT IF I ... created something like this: my_sample_file.txt table "MySample Table" field "RequestID", 1 field "Submitter", 2 ... field "My unique field", 0 # 0 is autoassigen field "MY unique field2", 0 index ["My unique field","My unique field2"], unique etc.... Then -- when your "run it" -- it outputs a HORIFICALLYLARGE XML file -- that would import nicely. **** AND EVEN NICER .... you can get the reverse... a table - to a nice definition -- so you can EASILY FIND -- ??? (I know - many pieces behind the scenes) OK - an example: table "MySample Table2" inherits_from "MySample Table" field "My unique field3", 0 index ["My unique field","My unique field3"], unique -John On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Coleman, Gavin <gavin.cole...@computacenter.com<mailto:gavin.cole...@computacenter.com>> wrote: ** Can you not just select the form and then go to File-->Save As? Assuming you're in Developer Studio. Similar functionality exists in the old Admin tool. Thanks, Gavin Coleman Senior Analyst/Programmer Computacenter (UK) Ltd Services & Solutions Hatfield Avenue Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9TW, United Kingdom T: +44 (0) 1707 631662<tel:%2B44%20%280%29%201707%20631662> E: gavin.cole...@computacenter.com<mailto:gavin.cole...@computacenter.com> W: www.computacenter.com<http://www.computacenter.com> From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG<mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG>] On Behalf Of John Sundberg Sent: 13 April 2012 15:25 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG<mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG> Subject: Form export and import - renaming ** I was thinking of making a similar form to an existing form. I thought I would export it -- modify the name of the form in the export and then reimport. So -- I went poking through the xml definition of the file... The only "gotcha" I see is that the xml file describes the indexes by index name -- stuff like i189 .... 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