Spatial Manager Desktop™ - FAQs: Import and export
Introduction
- Objective of this section
- To learn how to define import and export processes and their parameters, manage coordinate transformations and create and manage tasks
- Topics in this section
- Sources and targets: layers, features selection and data sources
- Providers parameters: connection and set up
- Transforming the coordinates: source and target, favorite coordinate systems, searching in the coordinate systems table and transformation parameters
- Creating and executing tasks: using the task manager panel, creating new tasks and executing saved tasks
- Task management: task tree organization, task properties, execution of tasks on the operating system Command window and batch processes
What are the Tasks in Spatial Manager Desktop™?
The Tasks are the way you can save any import/export process and its parameters, and have been designed to let you run, whenever you want, repetitive processes for import or export data tables. You can execute any Task directly from the application or from the operating system command window (this feature also lets you define powerful batch processes). You can access to Tasks through the "Task manager" panel
How can I create a new Task in Spatial Manager Desktop™?
You can create new Tasks using the "New task" button, in the "Task manager" panel, to start the "Create task" wizard, but you can also create new Tasks when you are defining any import/export process (except when exporting a Layer or when exporting a Features selection) because you will run then the same application wizard
When you create a new Task, you will need enter all the parameters of the origin and the target data tables, the parameters of the coordinate system transformation (optional), the name of the Task and a description for the Task (optional). All these data are saved, into the "Task manager", as a new Task, until you want delete it. Note that if you want to use a read-only UDS, you will be able to read data through this UDS (valid as origin) but you not be able to write data (not valid as target)
How can I execute a Task in Spatial Manager Desktop™?
You have two ways for executing Tasks in Spatial Manager Desktop™
First way, directly in the application. Use the right-click menu over the Task name itself and press "Execute" (or by double-clicking in the Task name), in the "Task manager" panel. That will start "Run start" where you can see, first, all the data of the Task and, if you want, execute it. When executing the Task you will see a window showing all the actions performed by the Task and, if you want, you can cancel it before the end
Second way, through the operating system command window. You must open a command window in the folder where the program is installed, execute the command "SpmCmd", it parameter "/TaskName:", and the name of the Task to execute, where you can use wildcards as "*" to execute several Tasks from one only command
