At the product, library, or project level, the import action is available to administrators of the product, library, or project and administrators of its parent context (the organization or site). The imported objects are created in the contexts as specified by the mapping rules, provided that the administrator has write access to the mapped contexts. Only business objects can be imported into this level.

When type instances are imported, the type definition is available in the import context.

To import data into a project, do not use the Import/Export Management utility. Instead, use the Import from File action available from the Details page for a project or from a folder. There is a slight difference in how this action works, depending on where you select it. If you select it from the Details page of a project, the import happens using the default behavior for the folder structure of all the objects in the target set. If you select it from a folder, all objects in folders are placed in the target folder.