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Bug 178908

Summary: Allow context to be saved to / loaded from a file
Product: z_Archived Reporter: Jörg Thönnes <jtk499>
Component: MylynAssignee: Mylyn Inbox <mylyn-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3    
Version: 2.0 M1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: All   
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Description Jörg Thönnes CLA 2007-03-22 18:01:48 EDT 
My current work scenario is as follows:

If we get new change requests for feature or bugs, I analyse the situation using Mylar and then forward some of the change requests to a co-worker.

We use the web connector to connect to our own repository. Since the web connector does not support attaching or retrieving contexts, the export / import would be the only way to forward the task context to my co-worker. But importing the
exported Mylar tasks and contexts overwrites all of the local information of my co-worker. Consequently, manual merging of the XML files would be needed.

I suggest to 

(1) Add extra menu actions "Save Context..." / "Load Context..." at the places
where also "Attach Context..." or "Retrieve Context..." are appropriate.

OR

(2) Extend the attach / retrieve dialogs to allow saving to / loading from a file.

In this way, I could easily work around the missing context attachment in my connector: save into a file, hand it over to my co-worker and he loads it into his task.

I regard this as a major improvement in the task context management.
Comment 1 Eugene Kuleshov CLA 2007-03-22 18:07:18 EDT 
Nice. Two requests for the same feature in a few hours. :-)

178883: Provide ability to export/import individual task content via File->Export/Import menu
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=178883
Comment 2 Mik Kersten CLA 2007-03-22 19:16:29 EDT 
Joerg: please comment on bug 178883.  I'm leaning towards making the first pass at this more along the lines of your suggestion (2) since that's as simple as adding a file chooser to both wizard dialogs.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 178883 ***
Comment 3 Jörg Thönnes CLA 2007-03-23 10:21:21 EDT 
 (In reply to comment #2)
> Joerg: please comment on bug 178883.

Will do. Did not check carefully enough...

>  I'm leaning towards making the first pass
> at this more along the lines of your suggestion (2) since that's as simple as
> adding a file chooser to both wizard dialogs.

Great! I just started to poke around in the XML Zips using XSLT ... grrr

Many thanks, Mik