# Import Exchange's Simple Shift UDT - failure

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/import-exchanges-simple-shift-udt-failure/73977>\
**Category:** Ignition Exchange\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [May 19, 2023, 10:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/import-exchanges-simple-shift-udt-failure/73977 "2023-05-19T22:56:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 10:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/import-exchanges-simple-shift-udt-failure/73977/1 "2023-05-19T22:56:50Z")

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I wish to try out Phillip Bourner's [Simple Shift UDT](https://inductiveautomation.com/exchange/1994/installation) for Perspective. I've downloaded it and when I try to import it into the 8.1.25 trial licence gateway I get

```auto
Failed to import project.
Gateway reported that it could not import project.

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I also tried unzipping and importing the .gwbk file but that failed as well.  
I've used other Exchange resources without difficulty.

Any ideas before I bother Phillip directly?

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 11:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/import-exchanges-simple-shift-udt-failure/73977/2 "2023-05-19T23:27:11Z")

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Well, gateway backups aren't projects. Phillip likely did this because tags and UDTs aren't part of projects. You will need to restore into a fresh gateway install, then export the pieces. (Which is what Phillip should have supplied, as separate JSON files.)