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Import a Case File - Overview

NOTE: This topic provides an overview of the import process available in WorkWORLD. After you read this, see the "Import a Case File - Operation" topic for a detailed explanation of how to use this tool.

WorkWORLD allows you to conveniently get all the data you need for a single case from an external case file. This file is much smaller than the internal database that WorkWORLD uses for storage and manipulation of all program questions, answers, and data. You can easily read the external file from a diskette or attachment to an email message into the WorkWORLD database. You can then view or update the imported case like any other case you have saved.

The corresponding feature of importing a case in WorkWORLD is, naturally, exporting a case file. This feature allows you to write a copy of the data contained in the internal WorkWORLD database to an external file.

The critical concept to understand about external case files is that they contain all the data for all the situations of one single case in a portable format that makes it easy to copy electronically. This allows you to share cases with other WorkWORLD users, make backup copies of cases, copy case files back and forth between your laptop and desktop computers, or share interesting or problem cases with Technical Support personnel. External case files are given the same name that they had within WorkWORLD, and use the file extension .ECF.

You can read the external case files on any of your computer drives that you can normally read from. This means you can read the files from folders on hard disks, floppy disks, and Zip, LS-120, or other extended capacity drives. If your computer has a tape, CD-R, or CD-RW drive, you may also be able to read the files from it if Windows (and WorkWORLD) is able to directly access the drive. On some computers these types of drives are controlled by special software that prevents Windows and/or WorkWORLD from using them directly.

Jump to the "Import a Case File - Operation" topic for a detailed explanation of how to use this tool.

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