Creating Dashboards in Development

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Hi,

I've been developing a WAD Graphical Dashboard in our Production Environment. Now we are implementing Change Control and I need to start doing my development in the Development Environment instead. Our source data comes from BI Queries.

I see it as almost impossible to develop a Dashboard in my DEV Box becauset here is very little data in development! There will be lots of data in our QA Box, but that doesn't get around the fact that I'm forced to develop 1st in DEV and then send it to QA for testing.

What is the best way to get around this problem? Just tell them it's impossible?

What does everyone else do when creating graphical web applications?

Thanks,

Ken

[Former Member]

For moving the Chart settings from QA or Prod you can try the XML Export in transport connection after saving the Chart settings as an Item in the library.

[Former Member]

Hi Ken,

It sometimes does get irritating esp. when doing graphs and there is no data in the Dev system. Some workarounds that I use, like if the query needs to pull data for previous 2 months (and obviously Dev will not have this data), I will change the variable in the query and do a fixed restriction by 2 months where there is data, so that I can get my chart properly done. Then I will reset the query with the original variable. Or if you have the change access in Production, simply make all changes there, copy these to the web template in Dev and transport for consistency.

Hope this helps...