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title: "How to: Load a file via process in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)"
description: "## Load a File via Process in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) Sometimes you’ve got a file on your network or PC – maybe a spreadsheet you’ve created or adjusted – and you need to get those numbers into your **IBM…"
url: "https://www.aramar.co.uk/knowledge-share/ibm-planning-analytics/how-to-load-a-file-via-process-in-planning-analytics-workspace-paw/"
updated: "2025-08-08"
category: IBM Planning Analytics
---

# How to: Load a file via process in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)

## Load a File via Process in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)

Sometimes you’ve got a file on your network or PC – maybe a spreadsheet you’ve created or adjusted – and you need to get those numbers into your **IBM Planning Analytics** database.

With Planning Analytics Workspace, it’s now quick and easy. You can simply **drag and drop** your file into PAW and process it.

### What you need to do

**Step 1 – Small backend update**

1. In your Turbo Integrator (TI) process, add a **string parameter** called `pFileName`.
2. In the Prolog, use the TI function `DatasourceNameForServer`.

   - Set the `name` argument to the *model_upload* folder, followed by your parameter file name:
     bash      `DatasourceNameForServer = 'model_upload' | pFileName;`

**![](https://www.aramar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/blogp1.png.webp)**

**Step 2 – Enable file upload in PAW**

1. In PAW, add a **Process widget** to a report book.
2. In the properties panel under **Run Process**, select the process you want to run.
3. Tick the **Allow file upload** box.![](https://www.aramar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/blogp2.png.webp)

### Running the process

When you run the process, PAW will prompt you with a web interface to upload your file.

- If the file already exists, you can choose to overwrite it or keep a copy of the old one.

### Security note

Analysts and Consumers can’t access the File Manager, so any file you upload is secure. Only **modelers** and **administrators** can see it.

**And that’s it – your data is loaded!**