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When a artifact exports from MFT the name looks like: so_916dffd7-19fc-406e-9fac-12b46fe79d0f.xml, this makes it hard to determine which files to pick then deploying a transfer and its associated files, so the ExportTransfer operation will rename the file to the name you provided when you create the artifact for example: ABCTransfer.xml. These files are renamed back (to id.xml for example: so_916dffd7-19fc-406e-9fac-12b46fe79d0f.xml) during the build step.
The purpose of this operation is to simplify getting mft artifacts into an SCM, and typically this operation will be used in a workflow specifically built to populate SCM, rather than in the build workflow.
Environment/Instance Properties
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