When you are using a bridge to import and export metadata, you
can filter the metadata to reduce the amount of metadata you are importing
or exporting.
About this task
After metadata is read from the source tool, the Metadata
Selection window opens. The Navigation View pane
organizes the metadata into classes of objects. You can expand each class
to display the specific instances of the class.
To filter metadata:
Procedure
In the Metadata Selection window, select the
classes and instances of metadata that you want to import or export:
Option
Description
To select all instances of all classes:
Click Select
All.
To select all instances of a class:
In
the Navigation View pane, select the class.
To select one or more instances of a class:
In
the Navigation View pane, expand the class, and then
select each instance that you want to import or export.
To protect the
semantic integrity of the metadata, not all classes and instances can be selected.
For example, you cannot select individual columns from a table.
To select one or more instances based on their relationships
with another instance:
Expand the instance to display the
instances that are related to it. Select each related instance that you want
to import or export.
The selected classes and instances are displayed in the Selection
Status pane.
Optional: Review the selected metadata.
Click a class or instance in the Selection Status pane
to display and highlight that class or instance in the Navigation
View pane.
Right-click a selected instance or class in the Navigation
View pane, and select Go To to highlight
and display the instance in the Selection Status pane.
Optional: Clear the selection of metadata that you no longer want
to import or export.
To clear all selections, click Clear All.
To remove a particular class or instance from the Selection
Status pane, in the Navigation View pane,
clear the checkbox next to the name of the class or instance.
The cleared classes and instances are removed from the Selection
Status pane.
Click OK to continue with the import process
or export process.