# Data Exchange

## How to Select Files for a Data Exchange Process

| ### What to do:
| As a prerequisite for the following example, you must create the item ART-1000 Ballpen in the item management.
| Select Start > Items. The Item mask is opened.
| Highlight the item ART-1000 - Ballpen.
| Select the Replicate option from the context menu. A selection menu with a list of available dispatch types is opened.
| The list of available dispatch types can be configured individually. The number of available dispatch types may therefore vary.
| Select a dispatch type.
| The record is added to the "EER send to" mask. The data is compiled and exported by means of an interactive process or automatically at a set time using a batch process. Once the data has been exported, the files <package.no>.tar and <package.no>lab are copied automatically to the eer/export/<name of media>/<path> directory.
| Users must have manager privileges to export data interactively. All other users must use automatically initiated batch processes!
| Manager Information > Initiating import and export processes