12.1.4.1 Import/Export EPC Content

Environment Administrators can import EPC data from outside environments into their own environment. They can also export their environment to EPC data files.

Furthermore, EPC differentiates Environment and System UDAs during the Import or Export process. This allows users to choose which attributes to export when exporting to EPC – Full Environment, EPC – Single Process or Process Set. Also, EPC does all the work by differentiating Environment and System UDAs when importing .epc files. For more information, click here for EPC import and click here for EPC export.

*Overwrite is only supported for a unidirectional export/import (ex: export from environment A —-> import to environment B). This means that data will only be overwritten if the export is performed from the same source environment (environment A) and then re-imported into the same destination environment (into environment B).

!Overwrite is NOT supported for a bidirectional export/import (ex: export from environment A —-> import to environment B —-> export from environment B —-> import to environment A). This scenario will result in the creation of duplicate objects during the last import to environment A because EPC treats all the data as new objects.