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Help Import XML

What are you trying to do?

I suggest that you start out simple and chip away at it.

Import will overwrite a task or profile with the same name.

When you EXPORT a task it is put in the tasks folder as a tsk.xml file

You don't have any projects in what you referenced.

To import a task ... see message above.

To import a profile ... do the same procedure clicking on PROFILES to start the process.

... Thom
 
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In Tasker you are telling it to load some data and use it for a specific purpose ... like Project or Task. I don't see where a generic import file capability addresses the need.

What is needed is a safeguard that a liked-name element is not accidently overwritten by the import by asking fir permission when it finds one.

Global data access in Tasker is a little "fluid" and becomes an issue when you start creating .apk files. What was global in Tasker is not what is global in the .apk.

... Thom
 
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Perhaps make the interface less complicated? I've seen a few of these questions on forums, it would certainly eliminate that need. There's four different locations for Import commands, a generic button with subselecting the mode, or even Tasker recognizing the format and importing accordingly... I'm sure it wouldn't hurt. But I've been wrong before.
 
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I don't see anything that it solves and it adds the potential for even more errors.

The way it is now you have to know if you are dealing with a Project, Profile, Task, or Scene and manually adjust for the varying implications of each.

That manual intervention is still required. Displaying profile, task. and scene names in a different color in the SML listing might help.

... Thom
 
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