# Export and recover real observations

Check genuine CSV, PDF and backup downloads and isolated save/restore.

Source: https://help.smartfact.ai/cyclebench/guides/save-and-restore

Audience: Operator

## Export and recover real observations

1. **Start a local timing study**

   Start a local timing study.

   This lesson times your real practice taps with the browser clocks. It never measures a machine or validates a labour standard.

2. **Capture the exact station code**

   Capture the exact station code.

   000017 is declared context. Scanning a station never starts the clock or operates a machine.

3. **Describe the observed activity**

   Describe the observed activity.

   The activity is the observer’s description. It does not identify an employee or determine performance.

4. **Move to the timing controls**

   Move to the timing controls.

   The clock is still stopped. Use explicit taps to mark boundaries while keeping this page visible.

5. **Start the real practice interval**

   Start the real practice interval.

   The browser’s steady clock begins now. The displayed precision does not remove human reaction delay.

6. **Record the next cycle boundary**

   Record the next cycle boundary.

   This tap ends the first observed gross cycle and starts the next. The duration comes from the genuine browser clock.

7. **Name the observed interruption**

   Name the observed interruption.

   Describe the interruption before starting it. It will remain inside this cycle’s gross time.

8. **Start an interruption within the cycle**

   Start an interruption within the cycle.

   The cycle keeps running. Next and Finish are unavailable until the interruption ends; its time must never be added to or subtracted from gross.

9. **End the nested interruption**

   End the nested interruption.

   The genuine timer records the interruption inside the unfinished cycle. It does not create another cycle.

10. **Finish and review both cycles**

   Finish and review both cycles.

   The final tap ends cycle two and opens the actual results. Review the recorded gross times and nested interruption.

11. **Download complete observed data as CSV**

   Download complete observed data as CSV.

   The genuine CSV keeps gross cycle durations, the nested interruption and its scope. Never add or subtract the interruption from gross.

12. **Download the actual study PDF**

   Download the actual study PDF.

   The real report includes the observed intervals and limitations. Longer studies provide free numbered parts, never clipped history.

13. **Download the replayable project**

   Download the replayable project.

   The genuine exporter preserves the study’s raw observations. Downloading does not synchronise with a server.

14. **Save isolated practice observations**

   Save isolated practice observations.

   This normal save action writes only the Help frame’s private database. Ordinary projects and workbench cookies are never touched.

15. **Start new temporary work**

   Start new temporary work.

   Confirm the genuine replacement question. The isolated saved study remains until this practice session ends.

16. **List isolated saved studies**

   List isolated saved studies.

   Only this Help session’s private saved observations appear here.

17. **Restore the finished practice study**

   Restore the finished practice study.

   The real strict project store restores both finished cycles and the recorded interruption.

18. **Refuse malformed project data**

   Refuse malformed project data.

   Duplicate JSON keys are rejected atomically. Your accepted two-cycle observation remains visible.

19. **Keep the accepted study**

   Keep the accepted study.

   Dismiss the refusal and keep the genuine recorded observations.

20. **Import the prepared four-cycle project**

   Import the prepared four-cycle project.

   The actual importer opens the synthetic finished project. Imported claims remain unverified and no timer starts.

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