This guide will show you how to move a Picklist created in TANE to another installation of TANE (for example, on another computer) or to a newer version of Trainz such as TRS19. For instructions on how to create a Picklist, see the wiki page How to Create a Picklist

Access Your Current TANE Picklists

Step 1: Open CM and Your Picklists

From the TANE Launcher

select Manage Content
in Content Manager open the Content menu
select Edit Picklist

This will display all your current Picklists.

Step 2: Select the Picklist to be moved

right mouse click on the required Picklist
select Open Picklist from the popup menu

This will open the Picklist

Step 3: Select Picklist Contents

left mouse click on any one of the items
press Ctrl-A to Select All the items

Step 4: Transfer List to a New Window

right mouse click on any one of the items
select List Assets in New Window from the popup menu

Step 5: Copy Assets in Picklist

The Picklist assets will be listed by their kuids in the Asset KUID box of a new search filter

click inside the Asset KUID box. This should highlight ALL the entries - if not, press Ctrl-A
copy the asset list to the clipboard (press Ctrl-C)

Transfer the List to TRS19 (or Another Copy of TANE)

Notes:

If you are transferring the Picklist to another computer then you will need to:-

paste the list from Step 5 above into a program such as Notepad
save it as a text file
copy the file to your second computer.

There you can reverse the steps by:-

opening the document (in Notepad)
select and copy to the clipboard all the items in the list

Then proceed as described below.

Step 6: Open CM and a New Filter

in TRS19 or your second copy of TANE, open Content Manager
start a new filter
paste (Ctrl-V) the asset list into the Asset KUID box

Step 7: Create a New Picklist

The pasted asset list will appear in the CM display window, as shown below.

select an entry and then select all (Ctrl-A)
right mouse click on any entry and select Add to Picklist and then New Picklist from the popup menus