Creating Extracts

Administrator User Guide

Multiwrite Databases and Extracts : Creating Extracts

Before you create an extract, you must have created the master database, which must be multiwrite.

Note:

An extract can be created only at a node or at the root of an extract family. That is, you can create an extract at the bottom of an extract tree or you can create a new master for the extract family, but you cannot insert an extract between different levels.

Set the Elements drop-down list on the Admin Element form to Databases & Extracts and click Create. On the small form displayed, select Extract. The Create Extract form will be displayed.

The Extract team_id/dbname is shown at the top of the form. Initially this will show the name of the team which owns the database selected in the Admin elements list, followed by unset for the dbname until you actually fill in a name for the new extract.

The extract will be created from the database selected in the Select Database for Extract list. This list shows all the databases (including any existing extracts) in the project.

Extracts are marked with an X on this form, and in the Admin Elements form. Variants are marked with a V.

Check that the Owning Team is set to PIPE. Note that the team owning the extract can be different from the team owning the parent extract.

Give the extract a Name and optionally a Description.

Leave the other options at their default values (for more information, see the following subsections) and click Apply.

Note:

Extracts cannot be copied in the way that DBs are copied. An extract variant will have to be created instead: refer to Variant Extracts.