Hi!

I am trying to do some simple imports to my EA model.

What I would like to do is to add some new elements which are destined to be children of other (existing) elements. Doing a “straight” import, all the elements are inserted at the same level, and I have to go back in and create the parent/child relationships.

In deconstructing the export spreadsheet, I see that there is a hidden column for ParentID and, for existing parent/child relationships, this column is populated (with a 4 digit string). I assumed(?) that ID would be available as an attribute of the element, but that does not seem to be the case (at least, I couldn’t find it in the eaXL profile). I’m assuming I could go into the database and find this somewhere, but it seems like it should be easier than that.

My further (untested) assumption is that, if I were to add a new row to my eaXL spreadsheet which contained a valid value in the ParentID column, that the import would create the new element as a child of the identified parent.

I am guessing that it is not possible to import both a new element and children at the same time (if it’s even possible at all).

Am I missing something? Am I asking too much?

Thanks for any advice or information!

Tom