About importing documents

There are many ways to get documents into a vault, including:

• Creating documents from templates
• Copying existing vault documents (including deriving and replacing documents)
• Saving documents into a vault from their native applications
• Importing from a database (by a system administrator)
• Importing with the Document Import Tool
• Importing with drag and drop
• Importing CAD drawing assemblies with the Assembly Import Tool

All of these methods create new documents, but the method you choose should be determined by the type and quantity of documents that you want to import and convenience. Each of the methods is described in the following topics.