Import Workflow

Overview

The import is a console application that can be initiated from the CTI.Import project. The startup class is program.cs.

Before starting an import, verify that the app.config values are set up for your objectives.

Get import parameters (adhoc dates, or scheduled values like hourly, ‘nnn’ minutes).
Can optionally include checks for deleted documents, or skip checks for deletes
Can specify to only import certain entity types, like organizations, and credentials for example.
Calls RegistryImport method with target date range:
- Search for any documents of the target type with a last updated date between the provided start and end dates
- NOTE: dates in the registry are UTC. The dates provided in the app.config or calculated based on hour or minute parameters, will be converted to UTC before calling this step.
For each envelope returned by the registry search, the appropriate method in the Import.Services project will be called Import.Services
- NOTE: We are using the V3 import methods and the related MappingHelperV3 class. The original import methods have not been removed yet
- Each import class has a few options for importing as we have functions on the finder website for importing/reimporting by CTID URL or envelope URL.

Ensure that both databases have been restored to your environment.
Update the connection strings in the app.config with source server name, and the proper username and password (probably established when the databases were restored).
Create the c:@logs folder if you want to see traces or any error logs (very unlikely, of course).
The import is configured by default to do an adhoc run, since Feb 1, 2019, and to download from production. You may want to change to a more recent date to have less data to process for initial testing.
- <add key="scheduleType" value="adhoc" />
- <add key="startingDate" value="2019-02-01T01:00:12" />
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- <add key="credentialRegistryUrl" value="https://credentialengineregistry.org" />