Chapter 50. Exporting, importing, and deploying dashboards
After you create a dashboard in Business Central, you can export the dashboard data and import it in another instance of Business Central, in Dashbuilder Runtime, or in Dashbuilder Standalone.
This feature is only accessible by administrator users.
50.1. Exporting dashboard data
You can export all the dashboard data such as datasets from Business Central as a ZIP file.
Procedure
- In Business Central, select the Admin icon in the upper-right corner of the screen and select Dashbuilder Data Transfer.
On the Dashbuilder Data Transfer page, click Export all.
An
export.zipfile containing all dashboard data is downloaded. Theexport.zipfile 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
50.2. Importing Business Central dashboards
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
Procedure
In Business Central, select the Admin icon in the upper-right corner of the screen and select Dashbuilder Data Transfer.
WarningYou should only import dashboard data to a clean installation of Red Hat Decision Manager in order to avoid overwriting data on an existing system.
- On the Dashbuilder Data Transfer page, click the Choose File icon.
- Navigate to the ZIP file you want to import and select the file.
- Click the Upload icon.
- Click Import.
