How to Move a Picklist

This guide will show you how to move a Picklist created in TANE to another installation of TANE (for example, on another computer) or to a newer version of Trainz such as TRS19. For instructions on how to create a Picklist, see the wiki page How to Create a Picklist

Access Your Current TANE Picklists

Step 1: Open CM and Your Picklists From the TANE Launcher select Manage Content in Content Manager open the Content menu select Edit Picklist This will display all your current Picklists.

Step 2: Select the Picklist to be moved right mouse click on the required Picklist select Open Picklist from the popup menu This will open the Picklist

Step 3: Select Picklist Contents left mouse click on any one of the items press Ctrl-A to Select All the items

Step 4: Transfer List to a New Window right mouse click on any one of the items select List Assets in New Window from the popup menu

Step 5: Copy Assets in Picklist The Picklist assets will be listed by their kuids in the Asset KUID box of a new search filter click inside the Asset KUID box. This should highlight ALL the entries - if not, press Ctrl-A copy the asset list to the clipboard (press Ctrl-C)

Transfer the List to TRS19 (or Another Copy of TANE)

Notes: If you are transferring the Picklist to another computer then you will need to:- paste the list from Step 5 above into a program such as Notepad save it as a text file copy the file to your second computer. There you can reverse the steps by:- opening the document (in Notepad) select and copy to the clipboard all the items in the list Then proceed as described below.

Step 6: Open CM and a New Filter in TRS19 or your second copy of TANE, open Content Manager start a new filter paste (Ctrl-V) the asset list into the Asset KUID box

Step 7: Create a New Picklist The pasted asset list will appear in the CM display window, as shown below. select an entry and then select all (Ctrl-A) right mouse click on any entry and select Add to Picklist and then New Picklist from the popup menus

Step 8: Enter a Name for the Picklist Enter a name for the Picklist and click Ok

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