O$: Exporting/Importing Datafiles with connections?

[Nick Renders]

Thank you all for your replies. I'll play around a bit and see how far I 
can get.

One follow-up question: how do I make certain I have recreated all of 
the connections?
Do I just loop through all of the Files and all their connections with 
notation like
below, or is there another way?

	Do $files.[fileName].$conns.$makelist($ref.name)

Thanks,

Nick



On 26 Feb 2016, at 18:34, Jeffrey Jones wrote:

> When importing a file that has a connected file, i.e. importing 
> invoices connected to customers, and using the omnis import data 
> command with a delimited file, the first field in the import list must 
> be a seq number or other indexed field of the parent record.
>
> This triggers a lookup on the parent file and establishes the 
> connection.
>
> -Jeff
>
>> On Feb 26, 2016, at 2:58 AM, Nick Renders <omnis1 at arcict.com> wrote:
>>
>> We have a little routine that exports/imports certain File classes 
>> from one Omnis Datafile into another.
>> It simply reads the data in a List (same definition as the current 
>> File class) and writes it back into the other Datafile.
>>
>> Now I would like to do the same thing with File classes that have 
>> connections.
>> I honestly don't know the first thing about Omnis connections, so 
>> before I blow up my computer, is there anyone with some experience in 
>> this field?
>>
>> I know that our routine will recreate Sequences, will that break the 
>> connections?
>> If so, how can you export/import an Omnis File while keeping the 
>> connections intact?
>>
>>
>> Nick
>>
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