User-owned dashboard - Use cases

Here are use cases for editing, transferring, and creating user-owned dashboard in Business Performance Center, focusing on managing dashboard identifiers. It explains how to handle user-owned dashboards, transfer dashboards between instances, and ensure persistent identifiers for consistent access and functionality.

Transferring a user-owned dashboard from one Business Performance Center instance to another user

When you transfer a dashboard from one Business Performance Center instance to another, you can keep dashboard identifiers for further usage that might require persistent identifiers, such as path URLs to access dashboards.

Procedure

  1. From the source instance, export the dashboard that you want to transfer.
  2. From the target instance, import the resulting JSON file and make sure to select the checkbox for keeping the identifier.

Results

All imported dashboards are owned by the user who imports them.
Warning: If the source Business Performance Center instance and the target instance do not define the same monitoring sources, the imported dashboard might return errors.

Creating a dashboard from an external dashboard

A user can create a dashboard from an existing one that is owned by a different user.

Procedure

  1. Export the dashboard that you want to transfer.
  2. Send the resulting JSON file to another user, who is the recipient.
  3. As the recipient of the JSON file, import this file.

Editing a user-owned dashboard from an external dashboard

Another way to change the identifier of a dashboard is to edit its JSON file.

Procedure

  1. Export the dashboard that you want to transfer.
  2. Send the resulting JSON file to the other user.
  3. As the recipient of the JSON file, set the id parameter to the identifier of the dashboard that you want to update.

    The identifier of the template appears in your browser as the value of the id parameter in the dashboard URL. For example, in the https://<your_machine>:9443/dashboards?id=wu0fmXwBLcrjPW7n4gfI URL, the dashboard identifier is wu0fmXwBLcrjPW7n4gfI.

  4. Import the JSON file and make sure to select the checkbox.