Dear Dev Team,
I am working on a project involving several 100 enumerators. I plan to set the data format to CSDbe for the enumerators. Once I receive the data back on my servers, I need to convert it to CSDB for easier maintenance. What is the easiest and most script-efficient approach to achieve this?
also are there any limitation on concatenation of large number of csdb files together efficiently.
convert csdbe to csdb
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justinlakier
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Re: convert csdbe to csdb
Hello,
You can open a CSDBE file, go to "File"->"Save As"->"Data", and specify a name with a .CSDB ending in order to save it as an unencrypted data file. Ideally you would synchronize or concatenate your data before this so there is no need to script this. All of your cases should be in the same data file. You can find the guide to CSPro's Concatenate Data tool here, and there is no limit on the number of csdb files to concatenate. Keep in mind that with CSDB files you must concatenate cases not file contents.
Hope this helps,
Justin
You can open a CSDBE file, go to "File"->"Save As"->"Data", and specify a name with a .CSDB ending in order to save it as an unencrypted data file. Ideally you would synchronize or concatenate your data before this so there is no need to script this. All of your cases should be in the same data file. You can find the guide to CSPro's Concatenate Data tool here, and there is no limit on the number of csdb files to concatenate. Keep in mind that with CSDB files you must concatenate cases not file contents.
Hope this helps,
Justin
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Gregory Martin
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Re: convert csdbe to csdb
You can also look at an example of removing encryption using JavaScript: https://www.csprousers.org/help/CSPro/C ... rekey.html