---
title: Example - Importing a culture version of a document using the Kentico
  Import Toolkit
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k8/external-utilities/kentico-import-toolkit/importing-data-from-external-sources.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k8/external-utilities/kentico-import-toolkit/example-importing-users-using-the-kentico-import-toolkit.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

In this example, you will learn how to import a new culture version of a **News document** from one Kentico database to another database.

1. Run the utility from **Windows Start -> All Programs -> Kentico 8.0 -> Utilities -> Kentico Import Toolkit 8**.
2. Choose **Start new import session**.
3. Click **Next**.

### Step 1

1. Choose the folder of a project into which the data will be imported.
2. Backup your data and check the check-box.
3. Click **Next**.

### Step 2

1. Choose **Documents** from the **Select data type to import** drop-down list.
2. Select a site where you want to import the document in the **Import data to site** drop-down list.
3. Select the **News** document type from the **Import as** drop-down list.
4. Select **Import new and overwrite existing documents** from the **Import options**.

   ![Configure the settings for importing language versions of documents](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/example-importing-a-culture-version-of-a-document-using-the-kentico-import-toolkit/Select_object_type.png "Configure the settings for importing language versions of documents")
5. Click **Next**.

### Step 3

1. Provide the MS SQL database information and the authentication information.
2. Click **Next**.

### Step 4

1. Select the **View** option.
2. Choose the **View\_CONTENT\_News\_Joined** view from the drop down list.
3. Type the Where condition into the appropriate field to select only the desired documents.

   ![Select the News documents form the source database](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/example-importing-a-culture-version-of-a-document-using-the-kentico-import-toolkit/Select_data.png "Select the News documents form the source database")
4. Click **Next**.

### Step 5

1. Check whether you picked the right data.
2. Click **Next**.

### Step 6

1. Check the **Show advanced columns** option.
   - If the advanced column fields are not filled in automatically, please click **Back** once and **Next** again.
2. Check whether the **NodeAliasPath** target field is mapped to **NodeAliasPath** source field.
3. Erase the **NodeAlias** field. It has to remain blank in order to import a new culture version of the same document.
4. Type the parent path of the documents into the text field below the data grid (you can use macros).

   ![Adjust the column mappings for importing language versions of documents](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/example-importing-a-culture-version-of-a-document-using-the-kentico-import-toolkit/Column_mappings.png "Adjust the column mappings for importing language versions of documents")
5. Click **Next**.

### Step 7

1. Select the **Import the data** option.
2. Click **Import data**.

### Step 8

After a successful import of multilingual documents, you should see the number of items, which were created.

**Close** the dialog.