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The Export Connections wizard exports information about one or more database connections to an XML file. The Import Connections wizard imports connections that have been exported. Database connections that you import are added to any connections that already exist.
Select Connections
You can select and deselect all connections or specific connections for the operation.
Destination File
File Name: Name of the XML file to contain definitions of the connections to be exported. Use the Browse button to specify the location.
Password Handling
Specify how passwords should be handled in the exported file:
Encrypt all passwords with a key: Specify an Encryption Key value and verify that value. (Anyone who attempts to import connections from the exported file will need to know the encryption key in order to be able to use connections with saved passwords without being prompted for the password.)
Remove all passwords from the exported connections: Removes any saved passwords from the exported connections. (If the connections are later imported, users will need to know the passwords for connections that they plan to use.)
Summary
Displays a summary of the options you specified. To make any changes, press Back as needed and change the information. To start the operation, click Finish.
Source File
File Name: Name of the XML file that contains definitions of the connections to be imported. Use the Browse button to specify the location.
Password Handling
Either specify the key that was used to encrypt the passwords when the connections were exported, or remove all passwords for the imported connections:
Use a key to decrypt all passwords: Specify the Encryption Key value that was used to encrypt the passwords for the export operation. (If an encryption key was used and if you do not know it, use the option to remove all passwords from the exported connections.)
Remove all passwords from the exported connections: During the import operation, removes any passwords that are saved in exported connections. (Users of the imported connections will need to know the passwords for connections that they plan to use.)
Select Connections
You can select and deselect all connections or specific connections for the operation.
Duplicate Connections: Determines what happens each existing connection that has the same name as a connection in the source file used for the import operation.
Rename: Gives each duplicate connection a new name similar to the name of the existing connection.
Replace: Replaces the information for the existing connection with the information for that imported connection.
Summary
Displays a summary of the options you specified. To make any changes, press Back as needed and change the information. To start the operation, click Finish.