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title: TMS Importer
description: "If you already have sensors and sensor types in the TMS software, you can import them into ACCCAL. There is a folder called ***`ToolsDBImporter`*** in the ACCCAL installation directory. Open it and run the ***`ACCCALDBImporter.exe`*** program. ![](https://acccal.at/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ACCCALDBImporter-1.png) Click on the…"
url: "https://acccal.at/en/docs/tms-importer-en/"
updated: "2025-01-16"
category: Tools
---

# TMS Importer

If you already have sensors and sensor types in the TMS software, you can import them into ACCCAL. There is a folder called ***`ToolsDBImporter`*** in the ACCCAL installation directory. Open it and run the ***`ACCCALDBImporter.exe`*** program.

![](https://acccal.at/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ACCCALDBImporter-1.png)

Click on the ***`Import`*** [1] button, navigate to your Access database (*.mdb), confirm with ***`Open`*** and the entries from the database will be imported. A file save dialog is then opened, via which the ***`*.transfer`*** file is saved. This file can be imported into ACCCAL (see [Import sensors](https://acccal.at/en/docs/import-and-export-data/#9-toc-title)).

If you need additional fields from your Access database, you can add them to the ***`ACCCALDBImporter.ini`*** file in the ***`[UDF_SENSOR]`*** section.

```
[UDF_SENSOR]
SensorID=Identification
```

In this example, the database field ***`SensorID`*** is assigned to the user-defined field ***`Identification`***. This must be created in ACCCAL in ***`Assignment/Sensor`*** (see [User-defined fields](https://acccal.at/en/docs/settings/#9-toc-title)) before importing .