Element Manager for large deploys

Summary

How to best export and import a large deploy using element manger?

Content

Hello,

The Element Manager documentation recommends keeping a package to less than 100 elements.  We have a very large deploy to move numerous workspaces, reports, and several workflows from one environment to another.  I tried moving the entire thing and got an error message that the package exceeded 200 elements.  So I would appreciate some understanding of how to best group the elements into packages and the order to import the packages to get an effective deploy completed.

For example, I noticed if I take only the workflows, the workspaces referenced by the workflows and the reports referenced by the workspace tabs are also pulled into the package as dependencies.  However, the workspaces that are launched by double clicking a report in a workspace tab are not included in the package.