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Preparing the Siebel Tools Environment to Import an Archive

You must prepare the Siebel Tools environment before you import an archive.

To prepare the Siebel Tools environment to import an archive

1. Make sure the local computer can access the import file through a network or local drive.
2. Make sure the repository you use to create the archive and the repository to which Siebel Tools imports the archive use the same schema version.

   You can export or import an archive only among repositories that use the same schema version. To determine the schema version that a repository uses, see Viewing Information About the Current Repository.

3. Make sure the repository is open in Siebel Tools and is the active repository.

   For more information, see Viewing Information About the Current Repository.

4. Make sure the projects that the import affects are checked out.

   For more information, see Checking Out and Locking Projects Before You Import an Archive.

Checking Out and Locking Projects Before You Import an Archive

Each object in an archive references a project. You must make sure that you check out and lock each of these projects. You can import an archive only to a project that is checked out in the local database of a client computer. Do not import to the Server database. The only exception includes projects or objects that reside in the archive but that do not exist in the repository. These projects are not checked out because they do not exist in the repository.

In some situations it might be difficult to identify the projects you must check out. The Import wizard informs you of any unlocked projects that you must lock. It does this after it analyzes the objects in the archive and compares them to the objects that reside in the repository. For more information, see Using Check Out and Check In.