Importing a project
Importing brings an exported project file into your Siter environment as a new project. This is the path for moving work between online and desktop, restoring a snapshot from a colleague, or recovering a project from backup. For the click-by-click flow, see the capability reference: Importing and exporting → How to import a project.
By the end of this lesson you should be able to:
- Recognize what the round-trip preserves and what it does not
- Anticipate the side effects on user permissions and sharing
What import preserves — and what it does not
| Preserved | Not preserved |
|---|---|
| Features (geometry, type codes, attributes, explosives, relationships) | User permissions and sharing assignments |
| Layers and layer organization | Pending access requests |
| Criteria selections and settings | Share tokens |
| Result sets and drawings (snapshots, not live re-runs) | Existing Analysis |
| Markup, to-do items, and notes | The Undo/Redo Stack |
| Relationships and Relationship Groups |
The "not preserved" list is intentional — a snapshot has no idea what user accounts exist in the destination environment, so it cannot meaningfully replay sharing.
After importing a previously shared project, you must reassign sharing and permissions explicitly. Plan for this whenever you hand off a project to a new owner. See Sharing. Not applicable in Siter Desktop
After the import
The imported project opens as a fresh project in your environment. Verify the import succeeded by:
- Confirming the project appears in My Projects
- Confirming criteria, default attribute preset, and feature count match the source
- Running analysis to confirm results match the source (small differences may indicate version drift in the criteria engine)
If the newly opened project appears to have only granted you Readonly permissions, reload the page
If the project was previously shared, reassign additional permissions as desired.
Try it
Export an existing project (see Export and import), then import the snapshot back into the same environment as a new project. Confirm:
- Features, criteria, and result sets all match the source
- Sharing is intentionally absent on the import
- Live analysis on the imported project produces the same results as the source
This round-trip is the cleanest way to internalize what the snapshot does and does not carry.
Additional Project Management fundamentals will be addressed in Module 9.
Related
- Capability reference: Importing and exporting → How to import a project — click-by-click steps
- Creating a project — the alternative way to start a project
- Export and import — the export side of the round-trip
- Sharing — reassigning permissions after import