Back up selected objects

Activator users with appropriate rights can export and import selected objects from the UI. This is useful if you want to create backups of individual objects or backups of collections of the same type of object. It is also a useful tool for moving selected objects between Activator environments of the same version.

The following objects can be exported and imported either individually or a as a collection of similar objects:

• Components
• Services
• Inbound agreements
• Document agreements
• Outbound agreements

Required permissions

The user must have a role that includes the permission to manage the object type that he or she wants to back up.

General procedure

To export an object or a collection of objects of the same type to a backup file:

1. Go to the management page for the object type.
2. From the list of objects, select one or more objects to export.
3. From the action selection box located below the list of objects, select Export.
4. Click Selected.
5. Activator creates a compressed file of the object or objects in the default download location that is defined for your browser.
6. The export package name has the format [object_type]-export.zip.

Example procedure: Export selected services

The following example illustrates how to export a collection of two service objects:

1. Go to Processing configuration > Manage Services to open the "Manage Services" page.
2. From the list of services, click the selection boxes next to the names of two of the services in the list to select them.
3. From the action selection box, located below the list of objects, select Export.
4. Click Selected and then click OK to confirm the creation of the export file.
5. Activator creates the compressed file service-export.zip at the location (Windows example) C:\Users\<current-user>\AppData\Local\Temp\.

After you create the export file

You can preserve the export file as a backup of the selected object or objects.

You can use the export file to move the selected objects from one environment to another, provided that they are running the same version of Activator .

See Import / restore selected objects.