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Preparing the Siebel Tools Environment to Import Objects from an Archive

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

To prepare the Siebel Tools environment to import objects from 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 Locking Projects Before You Import an Archive.

Locking Projects Before You Import an Archive

For non-workspace enabled objects, you need to lock the project before importing an archive file. 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 workspace-enabled objects, object locking is done at the database level. Therefore, there is no need to lock any project or object for importing.