1. Building Responsive Applications with Visual Builder Studio
  2. Get Started
  3. Create Visual Applications
  4. Common Tasks for Visual Applications
  5. Export Your Workspace as an Archive

Export Your Workspace as an Archive

When you export a visual application, you download an archive which contains the files in your workspace's branch of the application's Git repository. You may want to do export your application so someone else can import it when creating a workspace. This way, you can collaborate with other team members by giving them a copy of your local Git repository.

When you export an application, some information, such as credentials for external REST endpoints, is removed when you export an application. This information needs to be provided after the archive is imported.

To export a visual application:

  1. Click Workspaces in the main navigation menu.
  2. From the Actions menu for the workspace that contains the visual application you want to export, select Export.
  3. To export business object data in the archive that VB Studio creates, select Include business objects data in the Export Visual Application dialog.

    If you choose to include business object data, the archive will include a JSON file (entity.json) and a spreadsheet (entity-data.csv) for each business object. The JSON file describes the business object and the spreadsheet contains the business object data. If you choose to not include data, the archive will only contain the JSON file describing the business objects.

    The archive will always include the data for any business objects that are identified as containing Application Setup Data.

  4. Click Export.
The visual application and its resources are exported as a .zip archive and saved to your local system in the location specified for your browser’s downloads. The archive includes all the changes you’ve made in your workspace, even those you haven’t committed to your local Git repository yet.