Transferring Site Data

You can transfer any combination of users, groups, locations, address book entries, and devices from one site to another. For example, if your organization has closed its New York office and is relocating some employees to the Philadelphia office, you can transfer those users from the New York site to the Philadelphia site.

Similarly, if you have been working with a single site installation of Vocera and are now expanding to support multiple sites, you can transfer your existing users, groups, locations, address book entries, and devices from the default Global site to one of the new sites you are creating.

Vocera prevents you from transferring a group or location in the source site that already has the same name as a group or location in the destination site. Vocera transfers all the other entities you specified and then indicates that errors occurred, as described later in this section.

The home site of a group and the home sites of its members are not necessarily the same. Consequently, transferring a group to a different site does not automatically transfer its members.

Note: When you transfer users to a new site, the Badge Status Monitor immediately displays their new site in the Current Site column, even if the users are still physically located at the original site. When the users reboot their badges, the Badge Status Monitor displays their new current site.

When you transfer site data, Vocera prompts you for the following information.

Table 1. Transfer fields

Field

Description

Site to Transfer From

Click the Select button next to Site to Transfer From, select the site from the list that appears, then click Finish.

Site to Transfer To

Click the Select button next to Site to Transfer To, select the site from the list that appears, then click Finish.

Transfer

Specify the data to transfer:

  • To transfer all the data from the source site, check All. Groups and locations in the source that already exist in the destination will not be transferred.

  • To transfer only some of the data from the source site, check Selected, then click the Select button to display the Select Transfer Entities dialog box, then specify the data to transfer. See Select Transfer Entities for more details.

When you transfer users to a new site, the Badge Status Monitor immediately displays their new site in the Current Site column, even if the users are still physically located at the original site. When the users reboot their badges, the Badge Status Monitor displays their new current site.

To transfer site data:

  1. Click Sites in the navigation bar to display the Sites page.
  2. Click the Transfer tab to display the Transfer page.
  3. Enter required information.
  4. Click Transfer.

    Vocera transfers your data and displays a dialog box showing you the progress. When the transfer is finished, Vocera displays the progress as 100%.

    If Vocera cannot transfer all the data successfully, it transfers as much data as possible and displays the Show Errors button in the Progress dialog box.

  5. If necessary, click Show Errors to review errors in your import. When you are finished, click OK to close the Errors dialog box.
  6. Click OK to close the Progress dialog box and return to the Administration Console.