Transferring Data Between Projects

Administrator Command Reference Manual

Reconfiguration : Transferring Data Between Projects

RECONFIGURER provides a simple means of transferring data from one project to another, on the same type of computer, provided both projects are running under the same major version of AVEVA E3D™ and provided cross-referencing between DBs is considered logically.

The transfer operation in this case requires the use of the FROM FILES and TO FILES options of the FROM and TO commands. In the simplest case, namely the transfer of the contents of a single DB, such as a Catalogue, the following sequence of commands could be used:

In the source project:


Example:
FROM DB /CATOLD Specify source DB.
TO FILES /TEMP1 /TEMP2 Only pass 1 of reconfiguration to be carried out; partially reconfigured data to be stored in named files.
RCFCOPY ALL
RECONFIGURE

and in the destination project:


Example:
FROM FILES /TEMP1 /TEMP2 Partially reconfigured data to be recovered from named file;
TO DB /CATNEW pass 2 of reconfiguration to be done.
RCFCOPY ALL
RECONFIGURE

Note:

FREE (i.e. Read/Write) access is required to both projects.

If the contents of more than one DB are to be transferred, provided no reference attributes point outside the set of DBs being transferred, an extension of the same procedure could be used. Consider the transfer of the whole of one MODEL DB, the whole of a Catalogue DB and one item of equipment from a second MODEL DB, thus:


Source DB	Elements Transferred	Destination DB
CIVIL/STRUC4	Whole MODEL DB	STEEL/MAIN
ANSI/MASCAT	Whole Catalogue DB	CATAL/MAIN
SITE-A	One Site	EQUIP/MAIN

The reconfiguration commands should be given in the following order:

In the source project:


FROM DB ANSI/MASCAT TO FILES /REC1A /REC1B RCFCOPY ALL RECONFIGURE
	Copies the Catalogue DB first
FROM DB CIVIL/STRUC4 TO FILES /REC2A /REC2B RCFCOPY ALL RECONFIGURE
	Copies the Design DB
FROM DB VESSEL/V25CT TO FILES /REC3A /REC3B RCFCOPY /SITE-A RECONFIGURE
	Copies the Site

and in the destination project:


FROM FILES /REC1A /REC1B TO DB CATAL/MAIN RECONFIGURE
	Creates Catalogue DB
FROM FILES /REC2A /REC2B TO DB STEEL/MAIN RECONFIGURE
	Creates Design DB
FROM FILES /REC3A /REC3B TO DB EQUIP/MAIN RECONFIGURE
	Creates equipment item
RCFUPDATE DB STEEL/MAIN RCFUPDATE DB EQUIP/MAIN
	Gives correct cross-references