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<h1 id="Top">Using JMRI® to Operate Trains</h1>
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<h2>OperationsPro: Importing Cars from a File</h2>
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<p><a href="Ops_Cars_Menu.shtml">Back</a>
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<p><a href="index.shtml#Operations">Back to Index</a>
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<h3>Import cars from file</h3>
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<p>Selecting <strong>Import cars from file</strong> from the Cars -> Tools menu opens a
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system <strong>Open</strong> dialog box to allow you to select the file of your choice that
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meets the criteria defined below.<br>
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Note that OperationsPro will only add Cars that don't yet exist in the program's Car Roster.
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If a Car already exists, the import of that item will be skipped. You must also create the
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Locations and their Tracks before importing Cars into the OperationsPro program that use
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these place names.</p>
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<p>To improve the speed of the Car import, you may close the <strong>Cars</strong> window. It
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takes significantly more processor cycles to update the Cars panel during Import than to
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actually import the Car records.</p>
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<p>After importing your Car data, you must save the newly added entries if you want to keep
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them as part of your Roster. Select any Car in the Cars window list by pressing the
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<strong>Edit</strong> button and then press the <span class="textbutton">Save</span> button
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that can be found at the bottom right of the <a href=
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"Ops_AddCars.shtml"><strong>Edit Car</strong></a> window.</p>
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<p>If you already have a list of Cars records in a database, you can import these into the
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program. The Import function requires an ASCII text file, with one line for each Car.<br>
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The import order is:</p>
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<li>Car Number</li>
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<li>Car Road Name</li>
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<li>Car Type</li>
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<li>Car Length</li>
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<li>Car Weight</li>
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<li>Car Color</li>
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</ol>
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<p>The following shows two example records in the correct format:</p>
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<code>336 GCR Flat 40 3.8 Black<br>
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655578 UP Boxcar 40 3.8 Yellow</code>
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<p>Each line can start with a space and multiple spaces between fields is okay. Optionally,
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you can include additional information in the following order:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Car Owner's Name</li>
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<li>Date Built</li>
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<li>Location</li>
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</ol>
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The Location can have two fields: the Location Name, followed by the Location's Track Name,
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separated by a hyphen "-".
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<p>The following shows two example records in the correct format:</p>
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<code>336 GCR Flat 40 3.8 Black AT 1930 Home Town USA - George's Oil Terminal<br>
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655578 UP Boxcar 40 3.8 Yellow DB 1934 York - York Freight</code>
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<p>If you prefer to use comma delimiters instead of spaces, place the word "comma" at the
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start of your import file and use commas instead of spaces. The following are two examples of
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importing cars with comma delimiters:</p>
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<code>comma<br>
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336,GCR,Flat Car,40,3.8,Black,AT,1930,Home Town USA,-,George's Oil Terminal<br>
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655578,UP,Tank Car,40,3.8,Yellow,DB,1934,York,-,York Freight</code>
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<p>You need to be very careful with spaces when importing a comma delimitated file. The
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program will include leading and trailing spaces if they exist between the commas.</p>
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<p><a href="Ops_Cars_Menu.shtml">Back</a>
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