Using external uri in imports

[Jorrit Dorman]

Hello,

I'm currently trying to import some collections in other collections using the external uri. I thought I understood from the documentation that this should work, but EDG still gives the "(Cannot resolve URI)" error.

Should this be possible or did I misunderstand?

kind regards, Jorrit

[Holger Knublauch]

Hi Jorrit,

No, directly importing graphs from the outside is not supported, among others for performance and security reasons.

You would need to download them, e.g. in Studio’s File page you can right-click on a folder and select

Download Graph from URL into Workspace…

And once you are happy with those, you can use project upload to send them to the EDG production server.

HTH

Holger

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[Jorrit Dorman]

Hi Holger,

I think I was unclear in my initial question, I shouldn;t have mentioned import, but include. My bad. 

The problem I have does not come from importing graphs outside. I simply have 2 collections in edg. One with an external uri, and one trying to include that collection. I illustrated my problem in the 2 pictures below.

[Holger Knublauch]

Ah OK, yes this is not supported in this way. The mechanism is that while you are working inside of TopBraid with asset collections, the owl:import needs to point at the internal graph URI, e.g. urn:x-evn-master:XY. The external URIs are used when you export to TTL or Git only.

Holger

On Aug 21, 2025, at 18:41, Jorrit Dorman <jor...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Holger,

I think I was unclear in my initial question, I shouldn;t have mentioned import, but include. My bad. 

The problem I have does not come from importing graphs outside. I simply have 2 collections in edg. One with an external uri, and one trying to include that collection. I illustrated my problem in the 2 pictures below.

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[Jorrit Dorman]

Got it. Thanks for the answer.

Jorrit