RE: Conversion of Lotus notes data to xml Daniel W Heichel 6.Sep.14 03:52 AM Lotus Notes LEI LEI - 8.0Windows
You are correct that, in this model, LEI launching the agent via a Scripted Activity is essentially acting as a manager and scheduler. What LEI offers over the agent's own native scheduler is the ability to "chain" activities together, if that is useful for you, using the Dependant Activity field; as well as logging, failover handling, email notification on error, and setting a maximum duration on the execution.
It might be theoretically possible to use an LEI Direct Transfer, a Notes connector, and the Text connector to transfer Notes data to an XML file. However, that would require some finesse of the end-result text, it's not something I've tested. It would certainly not be as efficient as using Notes' own XML conversion tools.
There is a Data Transformation tab within the LEI Notes Connector, but it only accepts formula language, while the xml export tools require LotusScript.
The problem is that this is a bit tangential to what LEI is intended to do - which is to synchronize, move, or virtualize data between back-end relational databases and/or Notes. LEI would be an excellent choice, for example, as the first step in converting back-end data to XML. (For example, Oracle --LEI--> Notes --DXLExporter--> XML).
Notes (LotusScript) already has the DXL Export tools, there is no direct analogue in LEI. It's a case of "two different tools for two different jobs".
Running an export agent using a scripted activity is, for this specific functionality, your most efficient tactic.
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