Importing relationships

Perform this task to import data from an existing relationship into your system. Importing an existing relationship is useful in situations when you want to incorporate a relationship from another platform into your solution, but do not want to write code or use relationship manager to add instance details one by one.

Before you begin

Required security role for this task: When security and role-based authorization are enabled, you must be logged in as an operator or an administrator to perform this task.

Make sure the exported relationship you want to import is in RI or CSV file format.

About this task

If there are existing relationship instances in the database, existing relationship instances and newly imported relationship instances will be merged. If the relationship definition that you are importing does not exist, a RelationshipUserException will be thrown.

To import an existing relationship instance, perform the following steps:

Procedure

  1. Ensure that the administrative console is running.
  2. In the navigation pane, click Integration Applications > Relationship Manager.
  3. Open the relationships page for the server you want to manage by clicking Relationships next to that relationship services MBean.
  4. Click Import.
  5. Browse and select the import file name.
  6. Click Import.

Results

The relationship instance is imported into the system.
Parent topic: Relationship manager