Support Article
VBD KPI's & Views not being packaged while exporting
SA-19058
Summary
The Visual Business Director's Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Views are not being packaged whilst creating a package for distribution.
When the package is imported into a new environments, they are not present.
Error Messages
No error message.
Steps to Reproduce
1. Create KPI's in VBD using the path Designer Studio > Decisioning > Monitoring > Visual Business Director > Key performance indicators.
2. Open VBD and save some views.
3. Create a distribution package using the path Designer Studio > Distribution > Package, from source or development environment.
4. Import distribution package using the path Designer Studio > Distribution > Import, into test environment.
5. Check Visual Business Director's Key performance indicators and Views using the path Designer Studio > Decisioning > Monitoring > Visual Business Director.
Root Cause
The explanation why the VBD KPIs and Views were not exported is that these items are not rules while the Application Package wizard defaults to including rules only.
The VBD KPIs and Views are instead stored as instances of data classes. KPIs are in Data-Decision-Outcome-KPIDefinition and Views are in Data-Decision-VBD-Applet-View.
Since the Applicaton Package wizard creates a Product rule for the application, you are able to edit the product rule directly to include these data classes if desired.
Using the list of product rules with the path Records > SysAdmin > Product, one can open the product rule just created and specify the two Data-Decision classes under either "Class instances to include" or "Individual instances to include" based on your requirements.
Resolution
Adding Data-Decision-Outcome-KPIDefinition and Data-Decision-VBD-Applet-View to the "Class instances to include" section led to the VBD KPIs and Views being included in the package and in the new environment upon import.
Published January 31, 2016 - Updated October 8, 2020
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