Extract Format Changes

This topic covers changes to forms definition file extract format options and default values on the Preferences dialog and the Extract dialog. For details about UTF‑8 format changes that affect the Jade Report Writer extracts, see "UTF‑8 Encoding Support", later in this document.

The default extract format of forms definition files is now the XML DDX format. The legacy DDB format is still supported. If you exported your user preferences before upgrading to Jade 2022.0.01, your default settings are restored after you import your user preferences.

DDX files extracted in Jade 2022.0.01 will not load into the Jade 2020 or 2018 releases because they contain additional information and therefore are not backwards‑compatible.

The following changes have been made to the Preferences dialog Source Management sheet.

Unset Schema Extract option 'Create Command File' check box has been moved to this sheet from the Schema sheet and has also been renamed to Unset Extract option 'Create JCF Command File'.
Use DDX style (xml format) as Default instead of DDB check box has been moved from the Schema sheet to this sheet and has also been renamed to Extract as DDX (xml format) instead of DDB.

To extract definition files (for example, form, database, and ActiveX definitions) in the legacy .ddb format instead of the .ddx format, uncheck the Extract as DDX (xml format) instead of DDB check box.

This check box is checked by default because .ddx is now the default format.

Extract as UTF‑8 Encoded check box has been added and is checked by default, which sets UTF‑8 with a Byte Order Mark (BOM) as the default encoding format during all extract processes that you perform.

Uncheck this check box to set the default encoding format as native ANSI or Unicode.

The Extract dialog is now displayed instead of the common Save As dialog when you select the Extract command to extract an item; for example, if you select a method in the Methods List and select the Extract command from the Methods menu, the Extract dialog is displayed.

As part of this change, the Web Service Consumer Extract dialog has been removed and is replaced by the Extract dialog.

If you are a power user, press the SHIFT key when you select the Extract command, to display the common Save As dialog instead of the Extract dialog.

The following changes have been made to the Extract dialog. On the:

Extract Options sheet, the Extract Forms/Data as XML (ddx file) check box has been renamed to Forms/Mappings as XML/DDX and is checked by default if the Extract as DDX (xml format) instead of DDB check box is set on the Source Management sheet of the Preferences dialog.

If you check the Forms/Mappings as XML/DDX check box, extracted files are output in .ddx format.

Schema Options sheet, the UTF-8 Encoded check box has been added. Check this check box to use UTF-8 BOM encoding in the extracted definition file. If you do not check this check box, the extracted definition file is output in native ANSI or Unicode format.

This check box is checked by default if the Extract as UTF‑8 Encoded check box is set on the Source Management sheet of the Preferences dialog.