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You can add skills by importing them to your Skill Catalog. You can use this feature to import a skill that you have purchased using ABBYY Marketplace or to transfer an existing skill to a different environment. To import a skill, click the Import button in the toolbar. In the dialog box that will open, specify a path to the archive that contains the skill you are importing. This skill will be uploaded to your Skill Catalog and published. If required, you can also edit it. If the chosen archive is larger than 2 GB, you will see a dialog box with a link to a shared folder and its credentials. Dashboard Filter To open this folder, use any SFTP client and upload the archive. The skill will be imported to Vantage automatically. The archive will then be deleted from the shared folder. All files uploaded to this folder afterwards will be transferred to the exception folder. Hence you may use this folder to import only one skill. The folder remains active for 14 days. The version of the imported skill will be 1.0. If such a skill previously existed in the tenant and was deleted, the version number of the deleted skill will be incremented and assigned to the imported skill. The version number of the imported skills is always the same as at the time of export. If the skill you are importing already exists in your Skill Catalog, ABBYY Vantage will display a warning message and will ask whether you want to create a new version of the existing skill or save the new skill under a different name. If you choose the latter, the new skill will be called Imported skill name New.
Note. Vantage supports the import of skills exported from Advanced Designer. However, such skills will only be trainable in Vantage if a Fast Learning activity was added to the document processing flow in Advanced Designer.

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Importing a Document skill with data catalogs

Data catalogs exported with a skill are imported according to the table below:
Does a catalog with the same name exist in your tenant?Import of the catalogImport of the data (if data was exported)
NoThe catalog is imported.The data is imported.
YesThe set of columns and their types are the same.The catalog is not imported.The data is imported. Previous data in the catalog is lost.
YesThe set of columns and/or their types differ.The catalog is imported with the name< Catalog_name Skill_name.The data is imported.

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Importing a Process skill

If you import a Process skill that was exported without referenced skills, you have to make sure that all the referenced skills exist in the Skill Catalog. If necessary, such skills should be imported before the Process skill, otherwise you’ll get an error when importing the Process skill. If you import a Process skill that was exported with referenced skills, they will be imported as follows:
  • If such a skill exists in the Catalog, it will not be imported. The skill from the Catalog will be used, even if the skill in the import archive has a newer version.
  • If a skill with the same name exists in the Catalog, the skill will be imported and renamed. The link in the Process skill will be updated.
If the imported skill has shared folder import set up, this feature needs to be enabled manually after the import.
Note. The availability of this feature depends on the user’s role. For more information about roles, see Role-Based Access Control.