In Workbench you can import an individual component into an existing application. To import a single component, you must have previously exported that individual component to a separate text or XML file.

You can specify the following parameters using the Import a Component dialog:

To import one or more components from a file, start the BackupApp utility from the command line:

The following parameters and flags are available from the command prompt:

An exit code of zero (0) means success; a non-zero exit code indicates an error.

The following example imports a frame, TestFrame, from the file “testframe.frm” into the “myapp” application, and prompts the user if the frame already exists in the application:

The following example imports the backup version of the “myapp” application and merges all the components into the “bigapp” application. If any components in bigapp have the same names as those in myapp, it replaces them with the components from myapp:

The following example imports a component, “comp1” from application “myapp,” from the export file “myapp.bck.” This command also forces the application component to be compiled before being loaded into the database:

The following example imports a component, “comp2” from application “myapp” in “mydatabase,” from the export file “mycomp.xml”:

The following example imports the component source files and comma-separated component name and component source file pairings in the file “comps.lst”:

The file “comps.lst” contains the following content: