# About the Graphics Import Export Wizard

The Graphics Import Export Wizard provides the ability to generate complete graphic displays from an XML (Extensible Markup Language) text file, or to export complete graphic displays to an XML file. An XML file has an .xml extension.

With the Wizard, you can use an XML import operation to:

- Create a new graphic display, including display settings and objects
- Modify the display settings of one or more graphic displays
- Create new graphic objects on a new or existing display
- Update existing graphic objects on a display
- Modify the following aspects of graphic objects, whether new or updated:
  - Properties
  - Connections
  - Animations
  - Groupings
  - Wallpaper attribute
  - Key assignments
- Import multiple XML files in a single step

Using an export operation, you can:

- Create an XML file that completely describes a graphic display
- Export multiple XML files in a single step.

## To open the Graphics Import Export Wizard

1. Open the Graphics folder in the Explorer window.
2. Right-click Displays and select Import and Export from the Context menu.

   Tip: | The Graphics Import Export Wizard does not support language switching. When an application's graphic displays are exported using the Graphics Import Export Wizard, the strings on the displays are exported in the application's current language. When the displays are imported, the strings that were exported are imported into the application's current language. If the application's current language has changed since the displays were exported, the imported strings will overwrite the strings in the current language with the strings in the language that was exported. For example, your application has two languages, French and English. If you open it in English and then export a display, only the English strings are exported. If you then open the application in French, and import the XML file of the display, the English strings will overwrite the French strings.

## See also

FactoryTalk View graphic XML file

XML elements and attributes

XML declaration

Keywords: graphic display