Sharepoint Content Deployment Using Performancepoint Import Items Wizad

Sharepoint content deployment can be done in different ways. Its very useful feature in sharepoint since devolopers would choose the most suitable deployment technique rather creating same thing again and again. This is a another major factor to commercialize sharepoint products among most of the companies and organizations. Some popular deployment techniques  are listed below.

• If two serverfarms are physically connected by intranet, Content deployment and path jobs is the preferable solution for content deployment.
• If two server farms are physically diconnected, you can use sharepoint backup and restore to deploy your content.
• If top level site to be deployed to a subsite or vise vasa, sharepoint import and export make your wish.

But today Iam going to introduce a new method to deploy performancepoint contet. This method can only be used to deploy performancepoint content rather. As BI engineers most of you have to deploy sharepoint content as performancepoint content. Therefore deployng performancepoint content between serverfarms is to be done quite frequently.

So should we have to recreate our performancepoint content from the scratch, no absolutely not. Or else should we get a backup and restore it to the new site in other server farm. No its not a wise thing to do, since when you wanted to get restore previously created performancepoint content, your new site has almost created. Then you cannot lose your data. Actually you don't want to restore a whole site to get few performancepoint content.

Therefore the preferable technique would be to use Performancepoint Import Items wizad.

To import items there should be a performancepoint workspace file (*.ddwx file). When you working with performancepoint designer you can save workspace to a .ddwx file. Please make sure that only edited items (Items in the left hand pane) can save to a file. If you are newly opened the performance point designer, you should double click on each item to get those items to the left hand pane.

Then go to the BI site where you want to restore the content. (If it is a totally isolated from the parent server farm, it doesn't matters) Open the performancepoint dashboard designer. Click on the Import items. A dialog box will pop up and ask you for a source file, then browse and locate a workspace file where you want to import.

Then you have to map source lists (Data connections and Perfomancepoint content) with destination lists. The important point to note here that is, you can directly import items to lists in the subsites as well.

Then click next to start the content deployment.

Performacepoint import items wizad is a useful piece of component inside the performancepoint dashboard designer. It reaveals you a new ere to content deployment and save your development time by easily reusing performancepoint content.