Import a Skill

Import a skill to add it to your Skill Catalog — whether transferring a skill between environments or bringing in a skill purchased from ABBYY Marketplace.

Import a skill when you need to transfer an existing skill to a different environment or add a skill purchased from ABBYY Marketplace to your Skill Catalog.

Availability of this feature depends on your role. For more information, see Role-Based Access Control.

To import a skill:

1. Click Import in the toolbar.
2. In the dialog box that opens, specify the path to the archive containing the skill.

The skill is uploaded to your Skill Catalog and published automatically. You can edit it afterward if needed.

If a skill with the same name already exists in your Skill Catalog, Vantage displays a warning and asks whether you want to create a new version of the existing skill or save it under a different name. If you choose the latter, the imported skill is named Imported skill name New.

The imported skill is assigned version 1.0, unless a skill with the same name previously existed in the tenant and was deleted. In that case, the version number of the deleted skill is incremented and assigned to the imported skill.

Vantage supports importing skills exported from Advanced Designer. However, such skills can only be trained in Vantage if a Fast Learning activity was added to the document processing flow in Advanced Designer.

Importing archives larger than 2 GB

If the archive exceeds 2 GB, Vantage displays a dialog box with a link to a shared SFTP folder and its credentials. Upload the archive to this folder using any SFTP client. The skill is imported to Vantage automatically, and the archive is then deleted from the folder. Note that only one skill can be imported per folder — any files uploaded afterward are moved to an exception folder. The shared folder remains active for 14 days.

Importing a Document skill with data catalogs

Data catalogs exported with a skill are imported as follows:

Does a catalog with the same name exist in your tenant?	Are the columns and types the same?	Catalog imported?	Data imported?
No	—	Yes	Yes
Yes	Yes	No	Yes. Previous data in the catalog is overwritten
Yes	No	Yes, renamed to Catalog_name Skill_name	Yes

Importing a Process skill

If you import a Process skill that was exported without its referenced skills, make sure all referenced skills already exist in the Skill Catalog. Import any missing referenced skills before importing the Process skill, otherwise the import will fail.

If you import a Process skill that was exported with its referenced skills, they are handled as follows:

• If the referenced skill already exists in the Catalog, it is not imported — the existing skill is used, even if the version in the archive is newer.
• If a skill with the same name exists in the Catalog, the referenced skill is imported and renamed, and the link in the Process skill is updated accordingly.

If the imported skill has a shared folder import configured, this must be enabled manually after the import.