Opening a Package File And Importing Its Contents

To open a Director package file, either right-click on an empty area of the Project Browser with no other object selected in the browser, and select Open Package File..., or select Open Package File... from the File menu. Then browse to the .dxi file that you want to open.

The package file is then opened and visible in the Director Project Browser in the same way as projects. The objects in the package file cannot be viewed or modified directly from the file, but you can copy them to the EDQ host server by drag-and-drop, or copy and paste, in the Project Browser.

You can choose to import individual objects from the package, or may import multiple objects by selecting a node in the file and dragging it to the appropriate level in your Projects list. This allows you to merge the entire contents of a project within a package into an existing project, or (for example) to merge in all the reference data sets or processes only.

For example, the following screenshot shows an opened package file with a number of projects all exported from a test system. The projects are dragged and dropped into the new server by dragging them from the package file to the server:

Note that when multiple objects are imported from a package file, and there are name conflicts with existing objects in the target location, a conflict resolution screen is shown allowing you to change the name of the object you are importing, ignore the object (and so use the existing object of the same name), or to overwrite the existing object with the one in the package file. You can choose a different action for each object with a name conflict.

If you are importing a single object, and there is a name conflict, you cannot overwrite the existing object and must either cancel the import or change the name of the object you are importing.

Once you have completed copying across all the objects you need from a package file, you can close it, by right-clicking on it, and selecting Close Package File.

Opened package files are automatically disconnected at the end of each client session.