Export Structures
Before you begin
To export change tables, you must first create them from the Maintain menu for the structure you want to export. You can define the change tables for account structures, dimension structures, and company structures. By exporting the change tables, the recipient’s chart of accounts and history are changed when the structure file is imported.
About this task
- Accounts and forms
- Form sets
- Submissions
- Actualities
- Journal types
- Automatic journal types
- General configuration
- Control tables
- Copy and change tables
- Transfer tables
- Rights
- Linked structures
- Company and extended dimensions structures
- Reports and report books
- Currency rates and codes
- Workflows
- Import specifications (in IBM Controller Classic and in Controller Web)
- Country and region codes
- Lookup tables (in IBM Controller Classic and in Controller Web)
- IC templates
- Allocation definitions
- Job definitions
- User-defined business rules
- Subsets
- User roles
If you are going to make major changes to the Controller structures, you can export all structures to an export file and save it as a backup before performing the changes.
The new structures (accounts, company, and other structures) must also be included in the export file when exporting the change tables. Tell the recipient of the structure file that the change tables are enclosed so that they can back up their structures before they do the import.
Export structure files as compressed files. Compressed files are encrypted and can be read only by Controller.
Procedure
Results
If you chose to compress the export file, then a .fzp file that contains the structures you selected is exported to the specified directory. If you didn't choose to compress the export file, then a folder called FstrucController that contains the structures you selected is created. You can now import the structures to another instance of Controller. For more information, see Import Structures.