Importing a Database

To import a database:

IMPORTANT: Be aware that before you perform a large import, you should adjust the spreadsheet refresh rate to 20 or more seconds. If you leave the refresh rate at a low number, such as the default of 5 seconds, and you try to import a large amount of tags, the database may appear unresponsive. To adjust the refresh rate, in Classic view, on the Tools menu, click Options, or in Ribbon view, on the Home tab, in the Settings group, click Options, and then edit the value for the Spreadsheet Auto Refresh field, if it's enabled. After this is done, you can import the database.

1. In the Database Manager, in Ribbon view, on the Home tab, in the Process Database group, click Import.

- Or -

In Classic view, on the Database Menu, click Import.

The following text appears:

SAC will be stopped while blocks are being imported and then restarted.

2. Select OK to acknowledge the message.
3. Select the file you want to import.

NOTES:

• If you are using GE Historian as your Historian and you import and open a database on a machine that does not have GE Historian 3.1 or above installed, fields added for Historian collection are disabled. Additionally, the values for Historian fields are retained.
• If you enabled Automatically Configure Tags for Collection in Historian on the Historian tab of the User Preferences dialog box, then:
• All imported tags will be added to the default collector and collection by GE Historian are enabled.
• If you have an existing database and import a new database and both databases contain a tag with the same name, the existing database tag are overwritten by the new database tag.
• If you have an existing database and those tags are not enabled for collection in Historian, at reload time the tags are not enabled for collection. In other words, this setting does not override Historian's settings.