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Export Project navigator

  • 20 December 2022
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Is it possible to export all the levels and sub-levels of the project navigator in a .xlsx or .mpp format?

 

 


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Hi @mistrello,

The navigator info is actually stored as an ‘.xml’ file. It’s not possible to export it to a .xlsx nor to a .mpp file. However, it is possible to open it in Excel. Please follow the direction given below. 

IEE client reads its navigator information from a compressed xml file named “navigator.xml.gz”.
You can find this in the application server in path <ifshome>\instance\<instance_name>\client\runtime and in also your local click once cache.
If you don’t have application server access, try following steps to see this file in your local click once cache.

  1. Start IEE
  2. Start task manager by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Esc 
  3. Now find the started IFS EE client (named like IFS Enterprise Explorer (32bit))
  4. RMB → Open file location
  5. Now find the navigator.xml.gz in the opened folder. 
  6. Extract it using a archive file manager (WinZip, 7-Zip etc.).
  7. Open the extracted “navigator.xml” file. You can use Excel as William mentioned, and then copy the “Name” and “Type” column data into a text editor.
     


 


Extract the xml file.



Directly open the navigator.xml file using Excel and it will look something like below:
The screen names are in column “Name” and the screen type (folder/form/dialog box or pop-up/report) is in column “Type”.

Here is an example. 

 

The following community post would be helpful for you to get more information.

https://community.ifs.com/framework-experience-infrastructure-cloud-integration-dev-tools-50/export-navigator-to-excel-1260

 

Regards,

Charana

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Hi @Charana Udugama ,

 

Is there a way to do the same at permission sets?

 

Thanks.

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