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2531264 - Best Practices for Promotion Management Wizard (PMW)

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This document describes the best practices for promoting BI Platform content using the Promotion Management Wizard (PMW) tool, including:

  • What is the Promotion Management Wizard?
  • How to promote thousands of objects across between BI 4.x / 20xx environments
  • Promotion Management Wizard best practices
  • Troubleshooting Promotion Management Wizard
  • Promotion Management Wizard limitations

Terminology:

  • Promotion:  to copy / transfer content (e.g. users, folders, reports and dependencies) between BI 4.x / 20xx environments
  • Source:  content is promoted FROM this environment
  • Target:  content is promoted TO this environment
  • Life Cycle Management (LCM):  generally refers to this type of functionality
  • Promotion Management:  generally refers to this type of functionality; also, the name of a web-based tool with similar functionality (in the Central Management Console)
  • LCM CLI (Life Cycle Management - command-line interface):  a separate tool with similar functionality
  • LCMBIAR (Life Cycle Management Business Intelligence Archive Resource):  standardized archive file type, supported for use across all PM (LCM) tools.  In place of direct ("live CMS to live CMS") promotions, content can be exported to / imported from LCMBIAR files


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Environment

  • SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 2025+
  • SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.2 SP05+
  • SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.3 SP0x
  • All supported Windows & Linux Operating environments

Product

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 2025 ; SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.0 ; SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.1 ; SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.2 ; SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.3

Keywords

Promotion Management Wizard, best practices, promote, security, dependencies, LCMBIAR, file, live to live, large repositories, full repository, several objects, bulk promotion, bip bi 4.x 4.* 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 bi4.x bi4.x bi4.* bi4.0 bi4.1 bi4.2 bi4.3 sp05 bilcm, bpkba, bilcm, 2025, 2027, 4.2,sp5,promotion,pmw,4.3, migration, source, destination , KBA , BI-BIP-LCM , Lifecycle Management Console - Promotion mgmt, Version mgmt , How To

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