Backing up and working with Dashboard source files
The various files associated with a dashboard are saved within the Pentaho BA server itself. To view these files pull down the large menu in the upper left (will say Opened at this point) and select Browse Files.
The Browse Files screen should appear:
There are three important files associated with a Dashboard:
| demo_dashboard.cda | An XML file containing the data sources as specified in the Data Source Panel. |
| demo_dashboard.cdfde | A JSON document describing the layout of the dashboard as specified in the Layout Panel |
| demo_dashboard.wcdf | An XML file containing the description of the dashboard. |
To save these files locally, click on the first file and then click the Download… button to download this file to your local computer’s file system. You may need to enable pop-ups in your web browser to allow the files to be downloaded. Repeat this for the other two files. Note that the files will be downloaded in compressed (ZIP) format. To re-load these files into another BA Server, you will need to unzip them first.
Contents of the demo_dashboard.wcdf file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <cdf> <title>Demo Dashboard</title> <description>Demo Dashboard by Rich Holowczak</description> <author>Rich Holowczak</author> <style>Clean</style> <rendererType>bootstrap</rendererType> <require>false</require> <widget>false</widget> <widgetName></widgetName> <widgetParameters></widgetParameters> </cdf>
Exercise 4: Backup your Dashboard
Make a backup copy of your Demo Dashboard and upload it to a safe place such as Google Drive, DropBox, Microsoft Cloud, etc.
