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The "TableImportFromIdt" Command |
The Microsoft ORCA (????) tool can be used to export some or all tables into an ".idt" format. As this format is a text format it is very easy to examine in a text editor and if revision controlled you would be able to keep a history of changes that have been made to the files.
As this command can import the .IDT files, this makes them a good candidate for use as template files. You could start each project from a completely empty database and import all you standard tables and rows.
Importing of tables is very quick (in "direct" mode).
This command takes these parameters:
In direct mode the ".IDT" is processed directly by the "import()" method of the Windows Installer "database" object (see Windows Installer SDK doco). This method first clears out any existing database table and applies the table's schema before reading in the contents (it doesn't merge records).
When not direct, MAKEMSI will ignore the table's schema and will read the file itself, generating "table" and "row" commands for these. As any existing table is not first cleared the rows are merged, set default "row" validation options to your liking...
EXAMPLE - Import .IDT files |
This example shows how all ".IDT" files in a particular directory could be imported:
<$TableImportFromIdt "Exported IDT\*.idt">
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