Importing and exporting LxBases

TextChart Studio provides a tool for managing LxBase files, and for importing, exporting, and merging LxBases. To open the LxBase File Manager page, click Manage LxBase Files in the LxBase section of the vertical toolbar.


LxBase file manager

The tree view on the left of the page contains a searchable list of LxBase files, while the right side provides information about the current LxBase and a series of actions that you can perform on it.

Import LxBase

To import a new LxBase, click Choose File in the Import LxBase panel, locate the ZIP file containing the LxBase you want to import, and then click Import LxBase.

Export LxBase

To export an LxBase, provide a name and a description in the Export LxBase panel, and then click Export LxBase to download a ZIP file containing the LxBase along with necessary metadata.

Merge LxBases

To consolidate the work of multiple users, or to incorporate an update to the default LxBase into a customized one, TextChart Studio can merge two LxBases together. To begin, click Go To Merge Tool in the Import LxBase panel.


LxBase Merge Tool

Here, you can either merge a single LxBase ZIP file into the active LxBase (A), or merge two LxBase ZIP files together (B).

Important: To restore an existing LxBase after completing a merge, you must save a regression checkpoint beforehand.

After you select one or two LxBase ZIP files, TextChart Studio displays a table of their contents, organized by category. For each category, the table indicates how many files need merging, how many are unique to each LxBase, and how many are identical. To start merging, click in the leftmost column in the first row.


LxBase merge table

  • Pending

    Pending files are not identical between the two LxBases, and therefore you need to resolve their differences.

    Click Edit to open a dialog that allows you to view the differences between the files. You can decide whether the merged LxBase should use the contents of one of the LxBases in the merge, or you can edit to create a hybrid. Click Back to return to the table without saving changes, or Submit to validate your changes and save them if validation was successful.

  • Unique

    Unique files appear in one of the LxBases being merged, but not the other. To include a unique file in the result, click Include; to exclude it, click Exclude. Either decision resolves the merge process for that file.

  • Identical

    Identical files appear in both of the LxBases being merged, and have the same name and the same contents. You don't need to do anything to identical files, apart from clicking Resolve to acknowledge them.

    To resolve all identical files at once, click Resolve All Identicals.

To change which LxBase appears in which pane on the screen, click Reset Pane. To abandon all current merges and delete the selected ZIP files, click Reset Merge.

When you've resolved all the files in one category, you can move on to the next. When you've resolved all the files in all the categories, click Final Validation to make sure that your completed file is valid. Provided that it is, you can then complete the merge operation.