exporting/migrating Flags/Groups
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 4:21 pm
Hello,
I'm another Mac user who is in the process of migrating from DM to TntMPD (for various reasons). First, let me say thank you for the years of good use we have gotten out of DM: it has been very helpful for us! And your tireless answering of questions has been invaluable.
My question: In the process of migrating our data, we exported data from DM to a CSV file, and also to EXCEL (so we could see the column headers). In the exported file, there are 10 columns labeled Flag1 through Flag10. I need to figure out what each of these means, so as to import them meaningfully into MPD.
I understand from elsewhere in the forums that these flags are the Groups in DM 6. In DM I can view the groups, and can see who is in each group (very handy!). But I don't seem to be able to see which Group corresponds to which Flag. In one place the groups are listed in alphabetical order; in another place, they're in another order, which I thought might correspond to Flag1...Flag10, but looking at the data it doesn't seem to be so.
I could go through the data (TRUE/FALSE in the Excel export, comparing with who's in what group) in order to figure out which group corresponds to which flag. But that seems time-consuming and error-prone. Is there an easier way?
Thanks,
Lars
I'm another Mac user who is in the process of migrating from DM to TntMPD (for various reasons). First, let me say thank you for the years of good use we have gotten out of DM: it has been very helpful for us! And your tireless answering of questions has been invaluable.
My question: In the process of migrating our data, we exported data from DM to a CSV file, and also to EXCEL (so we could see the column headers). In the exported file, there are 10 columns labeled Flag1 through Flag10. I need to figure out what each of these means, so as to import them meaningfully into MPD.
I understand from elsewhere in the forums that these flags are the Groups in DM 6. In DM I can view the groups, and can see who is in each group (very handy!). But I don't seem to be able to see which Group corresponds to which Flag. In one place the groups are listed in alphabetical order; in another place, they're in another order, which I thought might correspond to Flag1...Flag10, but looking at the data it doesn't seem to be so.
I could go through the data (TRUE/FALSE in the Excel export, comparing with who's in what group) in order to figure out which group corresponds to which flag. But that seems time-consuming and error-prone. Is there an easier way?
Thanks,
Lars