[turba] Exporting Lists ...

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy at hub.org>:

> On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Jan Schneider wrote:
>
> > Zitat von "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy at hub.org>:
> >
> > >
> > > I just created a list consisting of two ppl in my address book ...
> when I
> > > export, it comes out as:
> > >
> > >
> > > "internal",,,,,,,,,,,,,,
> > >
> > > but there is nothing to list those who is part of that, so you can't
> > > export and then re-import a list ... is there something I'm missing?
> >
> > A list is actually a normal contact that is linked to several other
> > contacts. Thus you can add the information to it that you can add to
> each
> > "normal" contact. I don't know if this really makes sense but that's
> the
> > reason.
>
> Not sure if it does either ... I took a look at the schema, and a list
> has
> object_members set to the object_id's of each of the members of the list
> ... and object_type set to Group instead of Object ...

Correct.

> Now, not sure what the Export function does, but it doesn't appear to
> pull
> out the Group objects, only the Object objects ... ?

No. Otherwise you wouldn't get the line in the export that you mentioned
above.

> And since object_id
> isn't pull'd out in the export, to export the Lists, you'd have to
> translate object_members -> object_name ...

Sorry, I lost you here.

Jan.

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