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I've been asked to create a data dictionary for our Query Studio end users. Currently we do have some tooltip descriptions in place for data items. Is there a way to extract the subject, data item and tooltip descriptions from the business layer of the FM? We're not in a position to purchase any additional software that would help with the task.
Everything you need is stored within the model.xml file of the FM model, but the tricky part is to get it out in a properly fashion. The interesting part is in the namespace part of the XML where each model query subject is stored between the tags:
<querySubject status="valid"> ....................... </querySubject>
each item is stored between:
<queryItem> ................. </queryItem>
The same is attainable by running a model report from FM and using the xml option. You need to use a good editor (Ultraedit / Notepad++) to rework the xml and use an xml to text editor to brake the xml to a flat text file
You can also open that XML in Excel