CentraSite 10.5 | CentraSite User’s Guide | Asset Management | Managing Assets through CentraSite Business UI | General Procedures across Assets | Downloading Asset
 
Downloading Asset
 
Performing Zip Download
Downloading a Single Document from Supporting Document Library
Downloading WSDL or XSD Document from Service or XML Schema Asset
Downloading XSD document from REST or XML Service Asset
CentraSite Business UI offers two methods of retrieving the source files of CentraSite assets, namely exporting and downloading. The source file is the file that was imported into CentraSite in order to create the registry entry for the asset. For example, the source file for a web service asset is the service's WSDL file. The source file for an XML schema asset is its schema file. The difference between exporting and downloading is as follows:
*The export feature creates a zip file containing one or more assets from the repository, as well as all associated registry objects.
*The download feature creates a zip file containing just the source file of a single asset from the repository, without any of the associated registry objects. If the source file refers to other source files in the repository (for example, a WSDL file can reference XML schema files), the referenced files will also be included in the zip file. If the asset refers to files in the Supporting Document Library, these can optionally be included in the zip file.
If an asset was not created by an importer, but was instead created from scratch without using a source file, the download feature can still be activated. In this case, however, the downloaded zip file does not contain an asset source file but instead only contains files from the Supporting Document Library that are attached to the asset.
When downloading an asset, keep the following points in mind:
*To download any given asset, you must belong to a role that has the Manage Assets permission for the organization in which the asset resides.
*If you use the download feature to create a zip file, it contains only the files that you have permission to view. The default location to which the zip file is downloaded is My Documents\Downloads.
*This is of specific relevance to REST and XML based service assets. Beginning version 9.7, CentraSite supports the enhanced interface for REST services (in contrast, earlier versions of CentraSite supported a standardized interface for REST services). Documentation of the prior REST and XML service interface is available to CentraSite customers who have a current maintenance contract in CentraSite, CentraSite's global extranet ( http://empower.softwareag.com/).
*If you have REST services that were created prior to version 9.7 or if you are using the current version of CentraSite Business UI, you will only be able to view details of these services in CentraSite Control. You cannot download schemas from REST services using the CentraSite Control user interface (not even if you belong to the CentraSite Administrator role). This is because; CentraSite Control does not support the enhanced REST interface. You will only be able to download schemas from REST services using the CentraSite Business UI.