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Chapter 32. Dashbuilder data management in Business Central

Dashbuilder is a dashboard and reporting tool integrated in Business Central and is used by the Datasets editor. You can export, import, and deploy Dashbuilder-related data as ZIP files in Business Central.

Important

This feature is only accessible by administrator users.

32.1. Exporting Dashbuilder data

You can export all the Dashbuilder-related data such as datasets from Business Central as a ZIP file.

Procedure

  1. In Business Central, select the Admin icon in the upper-right corner of the screen and select Dashbuilder Data Transfer.

  2. On the Dashbuilder Data Transfer page, click Export all.

    An export.zip file containing all Dashbuilder data is downloaded. The export.zip file structure is separated by data type, as shown in the following example: 

    dashbuilder/datasets/definitions/dataset-example1.dset
dashbuilder/datasets/definitions/dataset-example2.dset
dashbuilder/datasets/readme.md
VERSION
    Copy to Clipboard

32.2. Importing Dashbuilder data

You can import Dashbuilder data to Business Central from a ZIP file if the archive is structured in the same way as the following example: 

dashbuilder/datasets/definitions/dataset-example1.dset
dashbuilder/datasets/definitions/dataset-example2.dset
dashbuilder/datasets/readme.md
VERSION
Copy to Clipboard

Procedure

  1. In Business Central, select the Admin icon in the upper-right corner of the screen and select Dashbuilder Data Transfer.

    Warning

    You should only import Dashbuilder data to a clean installation of Red Hat Decision Manager in order to avoid overwriting data on an existing system.

  2. On the Dashbuilder Data Transfer page, click the Choose File icon.
  3. Navigate to the ZIP file you want to import and select the file.
  4. Click the Upload icon.
  5. Click Import.
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