When you import an asset, Trading Networks checks whether an asset that has the same internal ID already exists in the target system. If not, in generalTrading Networks checks for an asset that has the same name; for profiles, Trading Networks checks for a profile with the same corporation name and unit name, and for TPAs, Trading Networks checks for a TPA with the same sender name, receiver name, and agreement ID.

If Trading Networks finds a matching asset using either check, it asks whether it should overwrite that asset in the target system. If Force Import is true and Trading Networks finds a matching asset using either check, it will overwrite that asset in the target system.

When you import processing rules, Trading Networks replaces matching processing rules and appends non-matching processing rules on the target system according to the rule order that already exists on the target system. If you use My webMethods to import processing rules, you can choose to replace all the processing rules on the target system with the imported processing rules.