Exporting Alias file to an Excel/csv/tab-delimited text file

[tvanboening]

Hello,

I am working on completely re-engineering a context-sensitive help project for a client. I don't need to go in to all the specifics, but one of my developers on the project has asked if there is a way to export the Alias file to some type of .csv or tab-delimited text file? I ideally would love to export the file in some semblance of what you see in the Alias Editor in Flare, including the icons (green/yellow circles) that indicate whether a particular topic in the project is in use in the help or not. I have attached a screenshot of this.

TIA,

TVB

[wclass]

There's no export function that I know of. I have used old fashioned copy/paste before, which gets everything except the status icons.

[tvanboening]

Yea, that's what I thought and have done as well, but for a variety of reasons, the Status icons are critical to this request.
Thanks!

TVB

[lcarver]

I don't know if you're still working on this, but my (not so great) workaround has been to go to the directory, save a copy of the .flali file as a .xml file (just changing the file extension manually in the name), open the XML in Excel, and then save it as a .csv. It's not ideal, but it will work if you're really stuck.