The scenario data that you plan to import needs to follow certain naming and formatting conventions.

The coordinates of the objects in the importing scenarios will be automatically filled, unless:

• The coordinates are already specified in the file (values differ from zero).
• The file contains more than 200 locations. In this case only local coordinates storage will be used (using an online provider will be too time-consuming). The search through local storage is available by either of the following:
  • Country and City (the Name column is considered if City is not specified)
  • Country and zip Code

On importing MS Excel file into the existing scenario, you can add the missing data to it, but be careful.

To import scenario data from MS Excel file

1. You can import a scenario by doing either of the following:
   • Drag-and-drop the required scenario (one at a time) onto the anyLogistix window.
   • Choose Import Scenario on the Welcome Screen menu.
   • Click the Add button at the right end of the Scenarios and controls ribbon, and then select Import.

   The Import dialog box will open:

   

2. Leave the Excel tab selected.
3. Select the MS Excel file with the scenario data by clicking the Select file button and navigating to the existing file.
4. Specify the desired name of the importing scenario in the New scenario name field.

5. Enable the Advanced options toggle button if you need to modify the import parameters:

   

   • Import into existing scenario — enable to import into one of the currently open scenarios.
   • Select scenario — (active only if the Import into existing scenario option is enabled) click the drop-down list of the currently opened scenarios to specify the scenario to import the data to.

     Prior to importing data into the existing scenario complete the action below:

     1. Explicitly specify the data to be imported in the Sheets to import option, otherwise, all tables will be imported, resulting in data duplication.
     2. Remove the data from the existing scenario that is about to be updated by the imported scenario to avoid data duplication (e.g. when importing demand, clear the existing demand data).
   • Sheets to import — click the drop-down list to select the tables to import. All other tables will not be imported.

     If no table is selected, all tables will be imported.

   • Import experiments — (selected by default) if disabled, the experiments contained in the MS Excel file will not be imported.
   • Override existing project conversion rules — if enabled, the unit conversions from the importing file will overwrite the project's existing unit conversions.
   • Scenario contains formulas — (disabled by default) if enabled, anyLogistix will consider expressions defined in the template cells.
6. Click Import to close the dialog box and import the scenario data.

   If import takes too long, you can cancel it by right-clicking the scenario's tab and selecting Cancel import. This option is available only during the scenario import.

   The newly created scenario will be located in the tab that corresponds to the type of the imported scenario:

   

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