How to Import and Export Job in Talend !!

In this post will see how to import or export the jobs from talend studio, this will help if you want to share the job with someone else in your team or you want to take the backup and restore into some other Talend Studio project.

Below are the steps to do so.

How to Import Items or Import Jobs :-

When you want to import items or jobs of whole project follow the steps as shown below.

1. Go to the Repository Panel right click on Job Design and click Import items.

If you want to import any specific job then choose that job and right click and click on Import option.

2. In Select root directory field, browse to the directory where you want to import your Job.

Or if you want to Select archive file define the archive file for all selected items.
All the items which you want to import will be seen in the screen and click Finish button.

You can see see in your left side of Repository Panel under Job Design that your selected items are imported.

How to Export Items or Export Jobs 

When you want to export items or jobs of whole project in your directory then follow the steps as shown below.

1. Go to the Repository Panel right click on Job Design and click Export items.

2. In Select root directory field, browse to the directory where you want to store your exported Job.

Or if you want to Select archive file define the archive file where to compress the files for all selected items.

3. Click on Export Dependencies checkbox here all the items such as File Delimited ,Connections,Context,Routines which are part of these jobs will be selected along with these jobs.It will set and export all the dependencies along with Jobs you are exporting.

Exporting items from the Job Design means it will export all the jobs that are selected as shown in the screen we can deselect the job which we don't want.

4. Then click on Finish Button.

Now the other way by which you can Export item.
Here if you want to Export items of single job in your specified directory. 

1. Go to the Repository Panel right click on the Job which you want to export and click Export items.

2.Then browse the Select root directory and provide the path were your want your job to be exported.See in the below screen your job has been selected then click on Export Dependencies option so that all the items related to job are also exported in the directory.

3.Click on Finish button.
Now you can go to your directory and see your job has been exported.