Importing Documents and Presentations

You can import previously exported documents and presentations from local computers and mapped drives. All content exported from Web Analysis (both presentations and reports) is appended with extension *.apt.

To import a document or presentation:

Select File, then Import, then From Local File.
The Import wizard is displayed. The Import wizard has two steps: Choose Files and Map Resources.
Perform one:
- Enter the fully qualified path from your client to a file you would like to import in Select a file to Import.
- Click the ellipses (...) button to Browse to the file using the Open dialog box.
Perform one:
- Enter the path from the root directory to the repository location to save the imported file.
- Click the ellipses (...) button to Browse to the repository location using the Open dialog box.
Optional: Select one:
- Click Create entire to recreate the database connections and documents used by the file, from xml definitions in the file.
- Click Map to existing files to use database connections and documents currently in the repository, instead of generating duplicates.
  If no selection is made, Map to existing is used by default.
  In Step 2, you must map database connections, and for presentations, you must map document playlists back to repository documents.
Optional: To locate a database connection for an unmapped document, perform these tasks:
1. Click a document row with a <Missing> status.
  Three command buttons are enabled at the bottom of the dialog box.
2. Click Locate.
  The Open dialog box is displayed, with the Files of type set to database connections.
3. Navigate to a database connection, select it, and click OK.
  The Open dialog box is dismissed. The Step 2 frame displays the document database connection status as OK.
Optional: To create a database connection for an unmapped document:
1. Click a document row with a <Missing> status.
  Three command buttons are enabled at the bottom of the dialog box.
2. Click Create New.
  The Database Editor dialog box is displayed with the Server tab current.
3. Enter a server name in Database Server.
  Web Analysis Studio enters the cached user ID and password information in the Login Information group.
4. Optional: Replace User ID and Password credentials.
5. Click Connect.
  The Database tab is enabled.
6. Click the Database tab to make it current.
  The Database tab features Application and Database areas and a Available Database selection frame listing the databases on the connected data source.
7. In Available Database, select a database application.
  The selection populates the corresponding area.
8. Optional: To define measures formatting criterion, click Formatting. See Creating OLAP and Oracle | Hyperion Database Connections.
9. Optional: To define a relational drill-through connection to a relational data source, click the Relational Drill-through tab. See Creating Relational Drill-Through.
10. Click OK.
  The Database Editor dialog box is dismissed. The Step 2 frame displays the document database connection status as OK.
Optional: To restore the original database connection exported with the document:
1. Click a document row with a <Missing> status.
  Three command buttons are enabled at the bottom of the dialog box.
2. Click Restore.
3. The Save As dialog box prompts you for a location to which database connections and document definitions are saved. Navigate to a repository location, enter a file name, and click OK.
  The Step 2 frame displays the document database connection status as <Creating>. The connection is not created until you map all document rows.
Repeat steps 5, 6, and 7 until all documents are mapped to a database connection.
Click Finish.
When database connections are mapped for all imported documents in the selected repository folder, click Close.