Source Independence

The utility is designed to detect that an object is the same object even if it was imported first from one location and then from another location, and even if it has a different container object.

• Recognizing the Same Object Imported from Different Sources
  The utility preserves each object's original Company ID and Object ID in an import archive table on the target database.
• Updating Namespaces
  The export includes the current parent of each included object, and the parent's current parent, and so on, up to the top-level Domain.
• Updating Mappings
  If an object is imported from a different source location than a previous version of the same object, the import process duplicates the object's source and target mappings from the most recent source in the target location.