Platform Analytics Migration - What is migrated?

[dan_linton]

In another post it was outlined how to migrate to the platform analytics dashboard

https://www.servicenow.com/community/performance-analytics-blog/platform-analytics-migration-in-xana...

Some more technical questions remain. What is happening with old dashboards? What is being changed?

Once dashboards are migrated you have forked your dashboard and have 2 versions (Migrated Dashboard and the Core UI dashboard). Any editing moving forward should be done in the platform analytics version of the dashboards. The question still stands what is happening during this migration?

Simply answer:

• Dashboards are migrated to new tables.
  • pa_dashboards to par_dashboard
  • pa_tabs to  par_dashboard_tab
• Menu items are removed
  • Reports
  • Performance Analytics
• Menu item is added
  • Platform Analytics Administration
• Context menu items are pointed to Platform Analytics (right click on list view column header)
  • Pie Chart
  • Bar Chart

More involved answer: This starts with a system property com.glide.par.unified_analytics.enabled (https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/xanadu-now-intelligence/page/use/dashboards/reference/dashboard-p...)

• When activating Platform Analytics through the Migration Center (Activate button) this property is set to true (com.glide.par.unified_analytics.enabled: true)
• By setting this to true several things happen
  • Application menus are updated
    • Reports – active is set to false hiding this menu
    • Performance Analytics – active is set to false hiding this menu
    • Platform Analytics Administration – active is set to true making this menu visible
  • Context Menu items are swapped
    • Bar Chart is swapped out for a Platform Analytics
      • Reporting “Bar Chart” active set to false
      • Platform Analytics “Bar Chart” active set to true
    • Pie Chart is swapped out for a Platform Analytics
      • Reporting “Pie Chart” active set to false
      • Platform Analytics “Pie Chart” active set to true
    • Setting this same property to false reverts all these above items back to the pre-migration
      • com.glide.par.unified_analytics.enabled: false