Importing Content

Procedure

  1. In the side navigation area, choose Start of the navigation path Transport Next navigation step  ImportEnd of the navigation path.
  2. Under the Content Network Storage tab, you can see a list of packages and folders.
    If you don’t see expected packages to import, click the Settings button and review the import settings. You can:
    • Enable the Show content shared by all systems option and optionally exclude content from specific tenants by adding them to the Add systems to block content sharing list.
    • Disable the Show content shared by all systems option and choose specific tenants to import from by adding them to the Add systems to allow content sharing list.

    If, after checking these settings, an expected package is still not listed, contact an administrator for help.

  3. Select the package that you want to import.

    A dialog showing an overview of the content appears. In the Overview tab, look at the Import Overview table to get a quick summary of the import settings and whether any existing content on your system will be overwritten. If you need to change any settings, select the Import Options tab.

  4. In the Import Options tab, select an option for the Overwrite Preferences.
    If an object selected for import does not exist on your system, the object will be created and its data will be imported. For objects that already exist in your system, the Overwrite Preferences determine whether to update the object and its data.
    Note
    If objects or data on your system will be overwritten by the import, a warning appears in the import window, and next to the relevant objects in the Content list. If you have made changes or enhancements to your sample content, follow the instructions in the Next Steps section to avoid losing your work.
    • Don’t overwrite objects or data:

      This setting prevents any existing objects in your system from being overwritten or updated with new data. You are notified if any of the objects selected for import already exist in your system.

      For example, you can choose this setting if you have replaced the data in an imported model with your own data, and want to avoid overwriting this data.

    • Overwrite data only:

      If you have made changes to the structure of an imported model and want to avoid losing those changes, choose this setting.

      Data is imported into each object, but the objects themselves are not updated.

      The Privacy and Data Access Control settings for models, as well as the permission settings for users and roles, remain unchanged.

    • Overwrite objects and data:

      Objects on your system can be overwritten and their data can be updated. The corresponding permissions assigned to each role are also updated.

      For example, you may choose this option if you are not using any of the content for business tasks.

      Select Remove permissions to remove the Privacy and Data Access Control settings for models and dimensions.

  5. In the Import To field, navigate to a folder within the Public folder, where you want to import the package contents.
    Note
    • If you want to choose the import location for individual folders within the Public folder, set the Override Folder Import Location switch to ON. If you are reimporting a folder, the import location is automatically set to the same location as its previous import; it can't be changed. Also, you cannot modify the location of individual objects, such as stories or models present directly in the Public folder. For example, if you have imported some content into My Files/Public/Folder A, you can modify the location of individual folders in the package to Folder B and not any objects present in the root location.
    • If the folders you are importing are within a workspace, you can't override the import location.
    • If an imported object does not exist in the target, it is imported to the location you have selected in the target tenant and maintains same hierarchy as the source.
    • If an imported object exists in the target, re-import updates the object in the respective target location.
    • When importing private objects fails with error: Failed to create 'Content Network' folder, you must rename or delete existing 'Content Network' folder and retry import.
    • Restoring Content Network folder from Deleted Files section, makes it available to All users.
  6. In the Content list, choose which objects to import, and whether to include the data for each imported dimension and model.

    You can select and deselect individual objects, or types of objects (for example, Models or Stories).

    The Impacted Content column shows warnings for objects that will overwrite content on your system.

  7. Select Import.

    The import process begins. You receive a notification when the process is complete, or if an error occurs.

    If you selected Don’t overwrite objects or data or Overwrite data only, a notification will let you know if any of the content wasn’t imported to avoid overwriting existing content.

    To view the log of updates and imports for a package, select the package in the content network and choose (History).

Results

Note
The user who imports the package becomes the owner of it. However, the user must have read permissions on the relevant object types to access the package content.