Copy your CAD setup to another community

Getting a CAD set up just right takes time: statuses, call types, a full penal code, report templates, scripts and dozens of switches. If you run a second community, or you're starting a new server, you can copy all of that across in a few minutes instead of doing it again.

The Config page saves your setup as one file, then lets you load it into any LonexOne community. You choose, section by section, whether to merge it in, replace what's there, or skip it. The same page can also put a section back the way it started.

Characters, records, reports and calls are never part of the file. It's only the setup.

Before you start#

• You need the Set up the CAD: call types, statuses, penal code, designs and AOP permission in both communities.
• To switch between your communities in the control panel, see Switch between communities.

What's in the file#

Two settings stay out of the file because they belong to one community: the settings on the CAD Documents page, and which call types are posted to Discord.

Export your setup#

1. Open your control panel and click CAD settings in the sidebar.
2. Click Config along the top.
3. Under Export, click Download export.

A .json file named after your community and today's date downloads. Keep it somewhere safe if you're using it as a backup.

Import a setup#

1. Switch to the community you want to copy into, and open CAD settings, then Config.
2. Under Import, choose the Export file.
3. Click Check the file.

The next page shows each section in the file, how many entries are new here, how many match ones you already have, and any notes. Nothing has changed yet.

4. For each section, pick what to do:

5. Click Import and confirm.

You're taken back to the Config page with a summary of what each section did.

Reset a section to its starter set#

The table at the bottom of the Config page lists every section with a Reset button.

1. Find the section and click Reset.
2. Confirm.

For most sections this replaces yours with the starter set, the same one a new CAD gets. Postals have no starter set, so resetting them clears the list. Resetting CAD settings and switches puts every setting back to its default, but leaves your tones and shortcuts alone. Department divisions can't be reset here, because they belong to your departments.

Reset can't be undone.

Rules and limits#

• The file can be up to 5 MB.
• After checking a file, you have two hours to import it before you'd need to upload it again. Only the person who uploaded it can see the check.
• Statuses can only be merged, not replaced or reset, while units are on duty.
• Divisions are skipped for any department that doesn't exist in this community. Create the department first, with the same short name or name.
• Entries in the file that can't be used are skipped, and the check page tells you how many.

Something not working?#

It says "That isn't a CAD config export. Export one from the Config tab of a LonexOne CAD." The file isn't a CAD config export, or it has been edited. Export a fresh one.

It says "That export is from a newer version of LonexOne." The file was made by a newer version than this community can read. Message us in the LonexLabs Discord.

It says "Units are on duty, so statuses can only be merged until everyone signs off." Choose Merge for statuses, or wait until everyone has signed off and try again.

The check page says "No department called ... here, so its divisions are skipped." Create that department in this community first, then import the file again.

I get a "page not found" when I go back to the check page. The check has expired after two hours, or it was started by someone else. Upload the file again.