Active Link Exchange Help: Importing and Exporting Links.
A great advantage of Active Link Exchange is its ability to import or export link exchange data to and from other programs and databases. The different file formats supported let you input or output data to any programs and applications that have a standard importing or exporting feature. Similarly Active Link Exchange data can be imported directly by industry standard databases such as Access and SQL and viceversa. Importing and exporting data is a useful feature to easily input all the data collected by Active Link Exchange in other applications or to get data from other applications into Active Link Exchange.

● Exporting link exchange data:
The objective of exporting is to save link exchange data into a standard file format that you can later on import into a database or third party application. First open your link exchange project and then select "Project/Export Links" from the program's main menu.



From the Import/Export wizard screen select the file format and the data fields to be exported.



- Status filter drop down box: select links to export. By default "All links" will be exported. You may select from any of the available subsets of links instead.

- File Type: select one of the supported file formats. The following standard formats are available: .csv Excel format file, tab delimited text file, .txt text file, .fpr or html file. The default .csv format can be directly opened or imported by most standard third party applications and databases such as Excel, Access, MS-SQL, Mysql and others.

- Fields: select the data fields to be exported. Most data fields from the link list are available. You will normally select only those fields that you plan to import into another application or database. If for example you plan to import email addresses into your own mail application you will just select the email address field.

Hit the "OK" button when done. Then save the data as a file in your local disk.



To review the contents of the file just double click on it (from Windows Explorer), open it with Excel or with a text editor such as Windows Notepad. The file can be freely imported into another application as you wish.

● Importing link exchange data:
The objective of importing is to input new links data into your link exchange project from a standard file format that you have previously created from another application or database. First open the link exchange project where you want to import new data and then select "Project/Import Links" from the program's main menu.



From the Import/Export wizard screen select the input file format and the data fields to be imported as new links into your existing project.



- File Type: select the file format of your input file. For example if you created the input file with Excel (Access or SQL) select the .csv format. The following standard formats are available: .csv format file, tab delimited text file, .txt text file, .fpr or html file. The default .csv format can be created either directly or as an export file from standard third party applications and databases such as Excel, Access, MS-SQL, Mysql and many other programs.

- Fields: select the data fields to be imported as new data into your project link list workspace. You will select only those fields that are included in your input file. If for example you are importing from an Excel file that only has urls and emails you will select the url field (always pre-selected by default) and the email address field.

Click on the "OK" button when done.
The new link data will be automatically incorporated into your link exchange workspace in just seconds ready for use in your link exchange project.