One of the benefits of this software is that it allows user's to import or export the data to other software. The reason this is available is so that users can import and use data that they have already entered into a spreadsheet program or into another logbook software.
Although you can use the import export to move your data around from one computer to another. There is section on backing up the logbook software. Backup proceedures would be used if you wanted to run this logbook software on another computer. Read backing up data for more information on this subject.
The import wizard can onlyr read a comma delimited file. It is important that the import file not have #comments lines, or have improperly escaped characters. For example, if there is a comma being used as part of a field entry it should be replaced with a space.
The import wizard will step you throught the process of importing data into the software and first ask for the file to import.
Press the "Next" button and then select from the left column to the right column the appropriate elements and order that your comma separarated file is in; for example you have a file with the following elements:
1990-08-18 00:00:00.0,N704SL,SZP,lcl,SZP,0.7,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0
1990-09-08 00:00:00.0,N704JH,SZP,lcl,SZP,0.6,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0
Each of the elements represents the following columns:
Date, Aircraft N-number, From, Via, TO, Total Flight Time, PIC, SIC, X-country, Instructing
You would select the item from the left and use the single ">" button to move the selected field item to the right. The ">>" button moves all of the items from the left to the right and the reverse is true for the "<<" button.
The export wizard walks you through the process to export all your logbook entries. This writes the entries out in a delimted file for import or use in other applications.
The export wizard will ask for the fields that you want to export from your logbook.
Press the "Next" button and then select the location you want to store the new file the file will be written as [filename].csv this example shows the default filename if you do nothing.
Below the filename selection is a field delimiter. You can select any of these as a delimiter type, so if you want the default Comma delmiter a "," will be placed between each field of your export file results. The other options are tab, pipe "|" and semicolon ";".
