Exporting and Importing a Connection

The framework allows you to export an established connection to a provider system from a client system and then reuse it on another client system.

Prerequisites

To export a connection from the file system, the connection has to be available.
You have to fulfill the procedure described in Creating Connections to Provider Systems.

Procedure

Export a connection to a provider system

Choose an entry from the table of connected provider systems.
Choose Export.
Save the connection on the file system. The system saves the connection as an XML document.

At a later stage, you can distribute and import the XML document to another client system, instead of establishing a connection with the same settings.

Import a connection to a provider system

Choose Import.
The Import Provider System window opens.
Choose Browse, and then open the XML document of the connection.
Choose OK.

After you import a connection from the file system, you have to edit the connection and enter the credentials that you use to access the provider system.