Readerware Export Wizard

There are a number of reasons for using Readerware export:

Transfer you database to your mobile device, take your database with you on your next trip to your favorite book stores.
Create your own web pages to publish your collection online.
Transfer data to online book sellers and auction sites.
Transfer data to other programs or databases

Readerware Export is not a good way to transfer your Readerware database to a new machine. Use backup and restore to transfer your complete Readerware environment to a new machine.

Readerware export allows you to export the data in your Readerware database to a number of different formats:

CSV, (Comma Separated Value) - This is a standard data interchange format, use it to transfer data to other programs and databases.
TAB Delimited - Another standard data interchange format. You can open a TAB delimited in file in a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel or Open Office. A TAB delimited file provides an easy way to transfer your Readerware database to a spreadsheet.
HTML - The universal language of the web, you can export your Readerware database to HTML to create web pages. Readerware will build an HTML table displaying all the selected rows and columns. When Readerware creates the HTML table it uses a style sheet, rware.css, which is distributed with the product. The style sheet controls various formatting options such as the colors, font styles etc. To display correctly you must copy the rware.css file to the same location as the exported HTML file. You can customize the style sheet, change the font or color of the HTML title, the background colors used in the table etc. You can also create more advanced HTML pages using the Readerware Report Writer.
Readerware Mobile - You can transfer your database to your Android phone or tablet, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch etc. with Readerware Mobile a lightweight edition of Readerware that runs on portable devices. In most cases you can also use the network sync option to transfer your database to your mobile device, this is faster and easier than using export.
iPod Notes - You can transfer your Readerware database to your iPod MP3 player and have it with you when you shop. Readerware can export your data right to your iPod, just connect it and then select your iPod on the Folder Selection page of the wizard. To access your database on your iPod, select the Notes function and then Readerware.
Images - Create image files from your Readerware database. You can choose the image, the image format and how the image files are named.
Generic UIEE (Universal Information Exchange Environment) - A common format used to exchange book information. It is used by several book sites.
Amazon UIEE - A non-standard version of the UIEE format used by Amazon.
BookHound - You can transfer your database to BookHound from Bibliopolis.
HomeBase 2.0 - You can transfer your data to HomeBase from Advanced Book Exchange Inc. You can also upload the exported file to the ABE web site. To import this into HomeBase, select File->Import / Export->Import from the HomeBase menu. Select the merge or zap option and click OK. Select the file you created in Readerware. Here is a tip, if you plan to regularly transfer files between HomeBase and Readerware, save the file in the HomeBase export directory. Then when you try and import the file into HomeBase it will be right there. Readerware will remember the location when you create your next export
Bookzangle - This format lets you integrate with the Bookzangle system. https://bookzangle.com/ .

Exporting

These are the basic steps:

Pick the format you want to export to
Select the file you want to export to
Select the books you want to export
Select the database columns you want to export
Run Readerware export
Check the results

Format Selection

This is the first page of the Readerware export wizard. The first step is to select which format you want to create the file in. Your choices are:

CSV, (Comma Separated Value)
TAB delimited.
HTML
Readerware Mobile
Readerware Mobile (iPod Notes)
Images
Generic UIEE, (Universal Information Exchange Environment)
Amazon UIEE
BookHound
HomeBase 2.0
Bookzangle

CSV/TAB Delimited Options

When you select the CSV or TAB delimited formats the following options are available:

Output header line - Include the column header line used to identify the columns contained in the file.
Enclose fields in double quotes - Readerware will enclose fields in double quotes when necessary. Use this option when you always need the fields enclosed in double quotes.
Escape new lines - Some other programs cannot import fields containing new lines. Choose this option and Readerware will replace new lines with '\n'.

File/Folder Selection

You need to tell Readerware the destination for the exported data.

Click on the Browse button and select the file or folder from the standard selection dialog.

If you check the Always replace existing file check box Readerware will automatically overwrite this file if it exists. This is useful if you are doing regular export runs to the same file. If this is not checked, Readerware will display a confirmation dialog before overwriting an existing file.

For TAB delimited, CSV and Bookzangle files you can also select the file encoding. This is important if your database contains data in multiple languages. You are exporting data from Readerware and importing into another program. It is important that you select the encoding that the other program is expecting. If there is a mismatch then data may not transfer correctly.

ANSI - This is your system encoding and is the default. It will work for databases that contain the system language.
Unicode (little endian) - Unicode is a double byte character set and can handle virtually any language and any combination of languages. Little endian is used on Intel systems.
Unicode (big endian) - Unicode is a double byte character set and can handle virtually any language and any combination of languages. Big endian is used on other systems like PPC.
UTF-8 - UTF-8 is a variable width encoding and can handle all characters in the Unicode character set. It has become popular as you don't need to worry about endianness.

In general you should choose either ANSI or UTF-8. If you are exporting your database to another program on the same system ANSI should work fine. If your database contains multiple languages or you are transferring the file to another computer, use UTF-8. But remember the other program must be able to handle the encoding you select, so check their documentation.

Book Selection Page

There are two or three choices when selecting which books to export. The number of choices depends on the format selected. The choices are:

All books in the database - This will export all books in the database, the complete database.
Current Search Results - The books returned by the last search are exported. You need to search for the books before starting the Readerware export wizard. You can control exactly which books are exported, for example you can search by category, then date entered etc.
Currently selected search results - This will export all selected books. You can search for books and then select the books you want to export.

Column Selection Page

Some formats determine the columns that are exported, for example Amazon UIEE format defines which columns need to be included in the exported file. In this case the column selection page is not displayed.

There are two ways to select the database columns you want to export

Current View Columns - The columns currently displayed in the search results table will be exported. Readerware views are extremely flexible. You can define any number of views and control which columns are included in each view and the order. If you have a regular export you want to run, create a view for the export containing exactly the data you want. Then just select the view before starting the Readerware export wizard.
Selected Database Columns - If you select this option the list of database columns is enabled. You select exactly which columns you want to export and the order. Columns listed with a green check mark are exported, those listed with a red cross are not. Double click on any entry to toggle its state. To change the order of the columns, select an entry in the list and use the up and down arrows to change its location in the list.

Verification Page

Next up is the verification page. This is your last chance to change your settings prior to running Readerware export. A quick summary of your choices is listed. Click on Next if you are ready to go. Click on Back if you want to change your choices.

Export Running Page

When you reach this page, Readerware export is running. You will see a progress bar that will update as Readerware exports the data to the file. Immediately below the progress bar is a Cancel button which you can use to interrupt the export.

When the export completes, click on the Next button to proceed to the final page of this wizard.

Export Complete Page

This page displays the overall export statistics:

Books Processed - The number of books written to the export file

Errors - The number of books that could not be written.

Normally this is all the information you need to ensure your data was exported correctly. If user logging is enabled, Readerware also creates a log file called rwuser.log. This file lists each book and any error messages. You can view this log file in any text editor.

When you are done, click the Finish button to exit the export wizard.

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