How to Import DocuWare 4 Settings

Question:
How can DocuWare 4 Settings be imported?

Solution:

1. Importing central settings from DocuWare 4
   Use this option from the Tools menu in DocuWare Administration to import central (global) settings from a DocuWare 4 system into the DocuWare 5 system. This includes: users and groups, stamps, RECOGNITION configurations, LINK configurations, OCR configurations, barcode settings and plug-ins. The imported settings are available in DocuWare Administration.
   The central settings from DocuWare 4 are read from the dwsettings directory in the CENTRALPATH and the docuware.400 file in the CENTRALPROGRAMPATH. This can be done from any computer that has access to the CENTRALPATH and the CENTRALPROGRAMPATH of the DocuWare 4 system. In addition, the user who is assigned to Workflow Server must be able to access these paths.The central settings can be imported one single time only.
    
2. Users and user groups
   Users and groups are always imported, unless you have defined a different setting from within the organization from which you selected the menu option.The Admin user who exists both in DocuWare 4 and DocuWare 5 (where he is set up automatically during installation) is ignored during the settings import.
    
3. User settings are imported as follows:
   User name and ID are transferred to the DocuWare 5 system, permissions are assigned to the user explicitly.
    
4. User group settings from DocuWare 4 are imported as follows:
   DocuWare 5 creates a group with the long group name of the DocuWare 4 group. In addition, a function profile with the long name of the DocuWare 4 group and the suffix "profile" and a role with the long group name of the DocuWare 4 group and the suffix "role" are created. The function profile is assigned to the role, and the role in turn is assigned to the user group. This transfers the permissions of the group for DocuWare 4 to the DocuWare 5 system.
    
5. Importing local settings from DocuWare 4
   This option in the "Local" menu in DocuWare Administration imports local settings from the registry of the computer on which DocuWare Administration runs. In order to import the local settings to DocuWare 5, this command must be run at each DocuWare workstation.
   
   For the the import, the keys listed in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DOCUNET\DocuWare and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\DOCUNET\DocuWare are available, except Fulltext SQL, DOCUMENT-SERVER and SQL user settings.
   
   When choosing the keys you want to import, don't forget that you can only perform the import procedure once on each workstation. This means that any key that you do not select at the first (and only) import, will not be available later.
   It is not possible to import attributes of keys that already exist in DocuWare 5. This situation arises when the user has already worked with a module in DocuWare 5.
    
6. ACTIVE IMPORT (up to Version 6.7)
   If the ACTIVE IMPORT key is imported, every key that is below this key and which contains an ACTIVE IMPORT job, will cause a new job to be created in DocuWare 5.
   Overlays that are used with the ACTIVE IMPORT jobs to be imported are copied from the CENTRALPATH\ADMIN\Overlays directory of the DocuWare 4 system into the LOCALPATH\AIoverlays\ directory of the DocuWare 5 system.