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This is Ben Langhinrichs from Genii Software with Part 1 of "Out of Notes",
a series I am doing on taking structured data like this out of Notes in various ways.
The Curb Appeal database will be a sample database I'll release shortly.
In it there are a number of real listings for houses in my area,
sold by various agents and with a lot of the structured data
you might see in a Notes database, from rich text to numbers to text.
Here we have the fields that are shown,
a rich text field for the photo, and again rich text fields
with bullet items down below.
There's a fair amount of complexity to get out.
This is the challenge we face, how to take this out,
either as structured columns, or in this case
we are just going to do a snapshot.
If we look at the Listing form, we can see there are
among the other fields, you've got computed images,
which in this case is the agent's photo.
And so this kind of thing also needs to come out.
It's data that's not directly on the form,
but is computed from the form.
So we need to handle that sort of thing, as well as hide-when formulas.
And we need to pull in the image resources that are necessary.
We're going to go to the Web Archive format. In that format, all this stuff will show
because all the images will show, but you'll need to have, for instance,
both the photo of the house which in each one of these is a different one,
but also the photos of the agents.
So, if we look over here to where we exported to .mht,
which is the Web Archive Format, it has all the pieces of information
that you would expect it to have. It's a MIME format,
so it is all in one file, and that's our snapshot.
I'm just going to go back here, and see that the format looks very, very close.
We've worked a lot on fidelity to make sure that when you
have a snapshot view, you'll see all the things the way
they were intended inside the Notes document.
Thanks for watching, and stay tuned as further parts
of the "Out of Notes" series show going to different formats
and in different collections.