Importing local projects

In Talend Studio, you can import one or more projects you already created with previous releases of Talend Studio.

About this task

Note:

A digital signature is added to each project item when it is saved in Talend Studio. When importing a project or project items, Talend Studio validates the signatures and rejects items with an invalid signature. This is a security measure to prevent accidental or malicious modification of project items.

You can import a project or project items exported from Talend Studio 6.0 and greater before the expiration date of a 90-day grace period from the first installation of Talend Studio or before the date set in the migration token, whichever comes later. Upon successful import, all imported items are signed.

For more information on setting a migration token, see Talend Installation Guide.

Importing a single project

Procedure

From Talend Studio login window, select Import an existing project then click Select to open the Import wizard.
Enter a name for your new project in the Project Name field.
Information noteWarning: Make sure the project name you entered is unique, and bear in mind:
- A project name is case insensitive
- A project name must start with an English letter and can contain only letters, numbers, the hyphen (-), and the underscore (_)
- The hyphen (-) character is deemed as the underscore (_)
Click Select root directory or Select archive file depending on the source you want to import from.
Click Browse... to select the workspace directory/archive file of the specific project folder. By default, the workspace in selection is the current release's one. Browse up to reach the previous release workspace directory or the archive file containing the projects to import.
Click Finish to validate the operation and return to the login window.

Results

Upon successful project import, the names of the imported projects are displayed on the Project list of the login window.

You can now select the imported project you want to open in Talend Studio and click Finish to launch Talend Studio.

Note: A generation initialization window might come up when launching the application. Wait until the initialization is complete.

Importing multiple projects

About this task

Note: Make sure that the name of a project you want to import is not already used for a remote project. Otherwise, an error message will appear when you try to import the project unless you store the local and remote projects in two different workspace directories.

Procedure

From the Talend Studio login window, select Import an existing project then click Select to open the Import wizard.
Click Import several projects.
Click Select root directory or Select archive file depending on the source you want to import from.
Click Browse... to select the workspace directory/archive file of the specific project folder.
By default, the workspace in selection is the current release's one. Browse up to reach the previous release workspace directory or the archive file containing the projects to import.
Select the Copy projects into workspace check box to make a copy of the imported project instead of moving it.
This option is available only when you import several projects from a root directory.
Information noteNote: If you want to remove the original project folders from the Talend Studio workspace directory you import from, clear this check box. But we strongly recommend you to keep it selected for backup purposes.
Select the Hide projects that already exist in the workspace check box to hide existing projects from the Projects list. This option is available only when you import several projects.
From the Projects list, select the projects to import and click Finish to validate the operation.

Results

Upon successful project import, the names of the imported projects are displayed on the Project list of the login window.

You can now select the imported project you want to open in Talend Studio and click Finish to launch Talend Studio.

Note: A generation initialization window might come up when launching the application. Wait until the initialization is complete.

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