Service Virtualization allows you to import one or more services if you have services in a compressed form in your system created by export service. By importing the service, you can optionally specify the prefix which can be added in the service name(s) and Url(s) as mentioned below:

- Maximum Prefix Length 128
- Following characters are allowed:
  - Alpha & Numeric Characters
  - Special Characters: /, -, _
- First character must always be '/' whereas the last character should never be '/'
- Prefix will be added before the URL.
- In case of service name, the special characters in prefix will be replaced by "_" and the first character of prefix (/) will be ignored. For example:
  - URL is /cavisson/services/create.json
  - Service Name is createService
  - Prefix is /sanbox/QA
  - New URL and Service will be as follows:
    - URL - /sanbox/QA/cavisson/services/create.json
    - Service Name – sandbox_QAcreateService

After importing the service it will be marked as a NEW service and the status of the service will show as IMPORTED. In order to use the service we need to activate the imported service

Notes :
1. If the Imported service has the same service name as one of the existing services, it will give a dialog and ask whether to overwrite or skip.
2. If the EndPoint URL of the imported service is same to any of the pre existing service. It will show the ERROR.