4.7.2. Import / Export

In group work mode more engineer work on different parts of the same project file. There are two methods for synchronization:

• Only one user works on the project at a time.

After finishing the work, he/she saves the project and hands it over to another user. This linear method is the simplest one. In that case the group work has the advantage that users can work only on those project parts, to which they have access rights.

• More users work simultaneously on the copies of the same project (not in network.
  In that case each user saves his/her own work into the project. They cannot hand over their projects to each other because they would overwrite each other’s work. How can they hand over their own parts?

By exporting those parts from the project first and then other users can import those.

The result of the export is a special file with .prox extension.

Export my part

Each user can export his/her own project parts (for which he/she has authorization rights) into a file with a special extension: .prox. If the name of the group work is groupwork1.pro, the exported parts will be saved as groupwork1.prox. The first user hands over only this file to the second user.

• Select File menu - Preferences - Group work - Export my partcommand.

• Save the project, if necessary.

Import from other users

Second user gets groupwork1.prox project parts from the first user.

• If this file is found in the same directory where the groupwork1.pro is, and then he/she opens the project, project parts from the first user will be loaded automatically. After saving that project, groupwork1.pro will include both users’ work.

• If the file has been saved into the same directory but the project was actually opened at the time of saving, or, the file is found in another directory, the import must be done by the user.

• Select File menu - Preferences - Group work - Import from other users command.

• Specify the file name to import.

• Exit from the project. Save it, if necessary.

• Log in as user, save the project and continue your work.
  The project will include both users’ work.

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