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Add company from bacpac - Sage 200 Online only

Use this to add a company from a bacpac, for example, Demo data for Sage 200 Online.

Why a bacpac and not a backup?

Unlike a standard SQL backup, a bacpac stores information about the server level objects in the database schema - tables, views, instance objects and so on - as well as the data that is held inside the database.

If you have a company data set that has been created on a local SQL Server and you want to add this data to the Windows Azure Server, you must:

1. Ccreate a bacpac from the local SQL Server data set.
2. Upload the bacpac to Windows Azure, using Sage ERP Online Services.
3. Use this option in to add company from bacpac.

Once you have added a company from a bacpac, you then need to assign users to the company. If you allow online payments, you must assign a vendor account for the company.

To add a company from bacpac

Open: System Administration > Companies.

1. Right-click Companies and choose Add New Company from Bacpac.
2. Enter the Company Name.

This must be at least one character in length and unique.

Do not use the word Configuration in the company name.

3. If the company is to be consolidated, select the name of the Parent Company.
4. Select the bacpac to add from the list of Available Company Bacpacs.
5. Click Create.

If Sage 200 detects any background taskThese are long running processes, for example, creating and updating databases., you will see the following message:



Check whether another Sage 200 user is creating, updating or deleting companies at the time. If so, wait until they have finished before trying again. If not, you can clean up the background tasks. To do this, select Sage 200 SA and then select Clean up background tasks.