APIv4 - Add export action for managed entities #22014
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Overview
New APIv4 action generates an exportable array suitable for use in a
.mgd.php
file.Comments
.mgd.php
files are tricky to hand-write; so this action is a nice time-saver and human-error-saver. But the really useful part of this api action is that it collects all references into a single array of managed entities. For example, exporting a SavedSearch will automatically include the search displays: