3.4 Preview and Export Menu

The fourth menu item group (Preview and Export) is in the top right corner and below the first group of menu items (as highlighted below).

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The options available in this group of menu items are related to the preview and export functionalities of the tool and change according to the menu item selected on the top menu (the second group of menu items (Editors)).

Below are the icons representing the menu items, along with their features. Users can change the size of these icons by right-clicking on any of them, selecting Customize, and selecting the appropriate setting in Options.

Table 3.4: A bird’s-eye view of the menu items in the Editor Ribbon
Menu item Names and functions
This is the Export button. This button saves the SDMX artefact in a local folder. In the case of Concept Scheme, Table Modeller and Category Scheme, there are two options available: ‘Save with descendants’ and ‘Save without descendants’. For saving a Code list, the following options are available: .Stat v7 Dim, CSV and SDMX-ML. For the following artefacts: DSD, Dataflow, ContentConstraint, Agency Scheme, and MSD, there are no variations in the option for saving.

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The ‘Push to DLM’ (DLM is short for Data Lifecycle Manager of the .Stat Suite) button becomes active (appears with colours) when the SDMX Consctuctor is connected with a DLM instance of a .Stat Suite. Note that credentials are required to upload structures (push) to a registry. Two options are available for the following artefacts: ConceptScheme, Table Modeller and CategoryScheme: ‘Push with descendants’ and ‘Push without descendants’. In the case of the following artefacts: Codelist, DSD, Dataflow, ContentConstraint, AgencyScheme, and MSD, there are no variations in the option for saving.
Structure Viewer. It lets you preview the tabulation and download the MS Excel and CSV templates. It is available for DSD and Dataflow.