2531264 - Best Practices for Promotion Management Wizard (PMW)

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 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 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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• Promotion Management Wizard is available starting BI 4.2 SP05+ & 4.3+
• PMW can be used to promote across same vesion or lower BI 4.x versions [ eg: 4.2x to 4.2x or 4.1x or 4.2x to 4.3x+].
• All supported Windows & Linux Operating environments.

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