Importing and exporting dashboard layouts

We can save a dashboard layout by exporting it from the IBM MQ Console. We can import a saved dashboard layout into the IBM MQ Console.

About this task

When you export a dashboard, you create a .json file on your local disk. Subsequently, we can import the .json file to a dashboard to re-create the layout. When you import a dashboard layout, we can choose to add the imported tabs to an existing dashboard layout. Alternatively, we can replace the existing dashboard layout with the imported layout.

Procedure

• To export a dashboard layout:
  1. Click the dashboard menu icon .
  2. Select Export dashboard. The file is saved to your browser download folder.
• To import a dashboard layout:
  1. Click the dashboard menu icon .
  2. Select Import dashboard. The Import Dashboard Configuration window opens.
  3. Click Browse and browse for the location of the file that contains your configuration.
  4. Choose how to import the dashboard tabs: We can choose from the following options:
     • Append imported dashboard tabs to existing dashboard
     • Replace existing dashboard with imported dashboard tabs
  5. Click Import. The dashboard tabs are imported.