Configuring How a Product Hierarchy is Exported to DesignSync

You can configure how a product hierarchy is exported to DesignSync.

See Properties for Configuring How a Product Hierarchy is Exported to DesignSync.

  1. Create or open the text file for customized properties. For more information, see Editing Properties Using MQL.
  2. To configure the character set allowed in the normalized names of products exported to DesignSync, follow these steps:
    1. Add or edit this line in the file used to import properties into a page object: 

      emxSemiTeamCollab.Export.AllowedChars = a-zA-Z0-9_.-

    2. Set the value for this property depending on your business requirements. It is defined as a character range for a regular expression that is used to normalize product names before they are exported to DesignSync.

    Product names are normalized by removing any characters in the name that are not contained in the specified regular expression.

  3. To identify from where the host and port values are obtained for exported products with no currently-known URL in DesignSync, follow these steps:
    1. Add or edit this line in the file used to import properties into a page object: 

      emxSemiTeamCollab.Export.NewModuleHost = parent

    2. Set the value for this property depending on your business requirements:

      • parent: The URL of the immediate parent of the object is used. This is the default value.
      • toplevel: The URL of the top-level object is used.

  4. To identify from where the Category is obtained for exported products with no currently-known URL in DesignSync, follow these steps:
    1. Add or edit this line in the file used to import properties into a page object: 

      emxSemiTeamCollab.Export.NewModuleCategory = parent

    2. Set the value for this property depending on your business requirements:

      • parent or toplevel: The Category value is obtained from the same object used to obtain the host and port values. The default value is parent.
      • Any value other than parent or toplevel is treated as the literal Category value to be used. In the URL, it is the value beneath /Modules. For example, a value of "" (blank) means that the modules created from the exported products will be placed directly in sync:///Modules. A value of "CatA/CatB" means that the modules created from the exported products will be placed in sync:///Modules/CatA/CatB.

  5. To specify the selector to be used for objects with no currently-known selector (that is, they have no current DSFA connection or DesignSync Version attribute), follow these steps:
    1. Add or edit this line in the file used to import properties into a page object: 

      emxSemiTeamCollab.Export.NewModuleSelector = revisionlatest

    2. Set the value for this property depending on your business requirements:

      • revisionlatest: The Revision value, appended with :Latest, is used. This is the default value.
      • Any other value other than revisionlatest is treated as the fixed selector value to be used.

  6. When you are finished updating the text file with all properties that you want to modify, use the text file to modify the emxSemiTeamCollab.properties page object. For more information, see Editing Properties Using MQL.