Moving page and its effect on saved customisation.

Question

Hi,

I have two dashboards, They have pages as under.

Dashboard: D1. Pages: P1, P2.

Dashboard: D2. Page: P3.

There are a few saved customisations related to page P1. I rename that page to P4. I can see the saved customisations (cache cleared, logged out, logged in back). However, when I move page P4 to dashboard D2 (a different dashboard) my saved customisations are lost. I thought that the page remains the same, except that the dashboard has changed, the saved customisation should still be available. Would it not be the case? If not, what is the reason behind losing the saved customisations?

Could someone please explain?

OBI EE version is 11.1.1.7.0.

Thank you.

Regards,

Manoj.

[Deleted User] · Answer

Everything in OBI - be it RPD or webcat - uses one of two ways of referencing:

a) IDs

b) fully qualified names

Dashboard construction and all webcat object referencing in object building uses b)

Saved selections use a)

Manoj Dixit · Answer

Thank you Christian. I am sorry I did not inform on Friday that I had gone through the saved selection's xml files which was bit beyond my understanding. The dashboard+page XML is something new to me. Thank you.

The question was out of curiosity. I would have liked a feature that when a page is moved from one dashboard to another, the saved customisations too are changed to point to the new location (without a need to look at the XMLs). There may be some valid reason here from implementation perspective, for example, when a dashboard prompt's scope is set to dashboard.

Regards,

Manoj.

[Deleted User] · Answer

Ok so you didn't check the XML...well half of what I said is better than none. This is a shared saved customization: ..... If you look at this And then check the dashboard+page this actually belongs to Hmm. Oh. Well what do you know. IT GOES BY ID!