Bookshelf: Importing from Another Repository

Importing from Another Repository

Use the Repository Import Wizard to import a presentation catalog and its associated children business model and physical layer objects from another repository. You can also import users, groups, variables, initialization blocks, and projects. Use this feature when the objects you import are unrelated to objects already in the repository such as when the business model and physical layer objects do not exist. If an object of the same name and type exists, the import process overwrites the existing object with the new object. When you import objects from one repository into another, the repository from which you are importing must be consistent.

To import from another repository

In the Administration Tool, open the repository in which you want to import objects, and then choose File > Import from Repository.

When opening a repository online, you might want to select the option Load All Objects to load all repository objects during initial connection. This may slow the initial connection time but it speeds the execution of other tasks.

In the Repository Import Wizard, select a repository either by its file name or, if it is being used by a Siebel Analytics Server, by the Siebel Analytics ODBC DSN that points to the desired repository on that server.

Type the appropriate Siebel Analytics Server administrator user ID and password.

In the Repository Import Wizard-Objects to Update dialog box, from the drop-down list, choose a category using Table 18 as a guide.

Available buttons (options) depend on the category that you select. You can add only the selected object, the selected object with its child objects, or the selected object with its parent objects.

Repeat Step 4 until you have added all the objects you want to import.

If any objects need to be checked out, the Check Out Objects screen appears, notifying you which objects will be checked out.

Click Next to continue.

In the Finish screen, click finish.

If the Administration Tool is open in online mode, you will be prompted to check in the changes before closing the repository.

Table 18. Categories of Repository Objects to Import
Category	Description
Projects	Displays all repository objects that you have chosen to update and synchronize.
Catalogs	The Add with Children button is active. Presentation catalogs are always added with all their child objects. All associated objects, from the Presentation layer to the Physical layer, will be updated and synchronized.
Groups	The Add, Add with Children, and Add with Parents buttons are active. (You can view information about group membership from the Security Manager.)
Users	The active buttons depend on the user selected in the left pane.
Variables	Defined system and session variables appear in the left pane. The Add and Add with Parents buttons are active.
Initialization Blocks	When selected, the Add with Children button is active.