User`s guide

9030971 E17 Creating Deﬁnition Files

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Setting General Information Parameters

Specifying a Post Export Script

The Post Export Script... displays a default script if one has been speciﬁed

for the PostExportDefault parameter in the SDE resource ﬁle. To specify

another script, click the Post Export Script... button to open the Post Export

Script dialog box (Figure 3-5). It enables you to select a script.

Figure 3-5. Post Export Script Dialog Box

(See Appendix E for an example of how a post-export script is used to

export data to a third-party database.)

Setting ASCII Format Options

Exported data saved in the ASCII delimited ﬁle format can be used as input

for a variety of report generators, databases, and spreadsheets. Depending on

the requirements for whichever of these you are using, you may have to deﬁne

the format of the ASCII ﬁles. You can customize the ﬁle format using the

Format Options feature. When you click the Format Options button, the

ASCII Format Options dialog box shown in Figure 3-6 appears.

SDE:

SDE: Post Export Script

Filter

Selection

Hansel/Spectrum/5.0/File_1

Cancel

Directories

Files

Filter

Hansel/Spectrum/5.0/*

File_1

File_ 2

File_3

File_4

File_5

File_6

File_7

File_8

ExampleDir_1

ExampleDir_2

ExampleDir_3

ExampleDir_4

ExampleDir_5