Bookmark Tool Overview

This is the documentation for ActiveViam’s Bookmark Tool, a tool for exporting and importing bookmarks to and from a directory structure.

Why?

The standard exporting/importing functionality available in the core ActivePivot API exports a Content Server path as a .json file. However, as the number of bookmarks delivered with Accelerators increases, this option presents a number of issues:

• The .json file becomes cumbersome to track in git
• Customisations are increasingly difficult to perform
• Merging custom bookmarks with any Accelerator changes is awkward

To address these problems, this bookmark tool enables you to export the bookmarks as a directory structure that follows the hierarchy visible in the UI. Having separate files for every bookmark provides the following benefits:

• Easier to incorporate changes
• Git is able to track changes to individual files
• To merge separate sets of bookmarks you only need to copy custom files or directories to the appropriate location