Copy Files to a Data Area for External Processing

Search Results View for a Data Set > right-click in tree Copy to External Area

Requires Imports - Add/Edit Permissions

From the Search Results of a Data Set, users in a role with the appropriate permissions can use the Copy to External Area option to copy the contents of an entire Search Result view to an Export Data Area. This enables you to then process the files outside the application.

Note: The Copy to External Area operation is selectable from Data Set search results only, and is enabled for the entire view only. This operation copies an entire Data Set Search Results view to the designated Export Data Area. It does not support individual file selection.

For this operation, it does not matter whether you have added any of those Data Set documents to Project Data. When you are done processing the copied files from the view externally, you can then use the Load from External Area option to load the files back into the application.

For more information about external processing, see How to Perform External Processing.

Copy to External Area Options

  • Export Data Area (required) — Select a target Export Data Area from the list of available Export Data Areas (a paged list).
  • Folder (required) — As soon as you select an Export Data Area, the appropriate Folder information appears to the right. Navigate and select the appropriate Folder, opening a top-level folder to navigate within that Folder. If a Folder name is truncated, you can hover over the name and a tooltip displays the entire name.

Copy or Cancel Options

  • Copy — When you have selected a folder location from the Export Data Area, click this to start the copy operation. This button will become active only when you have made a folder selection. A Work Basket task will enable you to track the progress of the copy and will identify the source view (for example, Copy Drill through ds1 IMPORT_ERROR for[Damaged] to Data Area).
  • Cancel — Click this to cancel the operation.