Exporting Topics

Zingoolarity allows you to export topic branches (the current topic and all topics below the current topic, while considering multiple levels).

You can initiate and export by clicking the "Export" button inside of the topic editor screen.

Note that the "Export” function requires administrative privileges.

It will export the currently focused topic and all topics below the currently focused topic (independent of any "open” or "close” state of the topics).

In addition to the topic information, actions, teams, links and matches of every topic will also be included.

The export file is formatted in ZML and will be written to your local downloads directory as "export_topic.zml” or "export_topic.csv", depending on the export mode setting in the settings screen.

ZML is a simple tag-oriented format, much like HTML.

The export can also be edited manually with a text editor before importing it again somewhere else.

Here is a very simple example of a ZML file (only be beginning is shown):

[topic]
[id]f30619d232d742f0b65312f476e8dd8e[/id]
[name]My Project[/name]
[detail]This is an example project.[/detail]
[active]1[/active]
[percent]-1[/percent]
[duration]0[/duration]
[duration2]12[/duration2]
[url][/url]
[keyword][/keyword]
[recurse]0[/recurse]
[breaking]1[/breaking]
[teamonmap]0[/teamonmap]
[seclocks]all.r[/seclocks]
[sort]0[/sort]
[forceview][/forceview]
[showdetail]0[/showdetail]
[width][/width]
[height][/height]
[style][/style]
[forcenewrow]0[/forcenewrow]
[parentid]undefined[/parentid]
[timingid]undefined[/timingid]
[timingid2]202405[/timingid2]
[typeid]undefined[/typeid]
[stateid]undefined[/stateid]
[userid]undefined[/userid]
[ownerid]00000000000000000000000000000000[/ownerid]
[avatarname][/avatarname]
[avatarfile][/avatarfile]
[avatar][/avatar]
[/topic]

[topic]
[id]dd85394466e14c86a4f4b89fbc8e376d[/id]
[name]Project Preparation[/name]
...

If you are an administrator in Zingoolarity, you can also import such a file again in another Zingoolarity instance.

An export file can also function as an "offline backup” of an entire map and can be imported again as a "restore”, if disaster strikes.