SPDataStore.UpdateDashboard Method

Updates a dashboard in a SharePoint list.

Namespace:  Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards.Store
Assembly:  Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards.Store (in Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards.Store.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Function UpdateDashboard ( _
    dashboard As Dashboard _
) As Dashboard
'Usage
Dim instance As SPDataStore
Dim dashboard As Dashboard
Dim returnValue As Dashboard

returnValue = instance.UpdateDashboard(dashboard)

public Dashboard UpdateDashboard(
    Dashboard dashboard
)

Parameters

• dashboard
  Type: Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards.Dashboard

  The dashboard object that contains the updated information. The Location property must specify the URL of the object to update.

Return Value

Type: Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards.Dashboard
The updated object, which contains updated information such as the new version number.

Implements

IBIMonitoringStore.UpdateDashboard(Dashboard)

Remarks

For dashboard, we recommend that you use a dashboard object that was previously retrieved by using the GetDashboard(RepositoryLocation) method.

Examples

The following code example shows how to retrieve a dashboard, update the retrieved dashboard, and then save the updated object to the repository.

Before you can compile this code example, you must do the following:

• Configure your development environment and create a C# class library project in Visual Studio. For information about configuring a development environment, see Setting Up the Development Environment for SharePoint 2010 on Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008.

• Add the Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards.Client, Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards.ServerCommon, and Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards.Store DLLs as references to your project. For more information about PerformancePoint Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 DLLs, see PerformancePoint Services DLLs Used in Development Scenarios.

• Add the following using directives to your class.

  using Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards;
  using Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards.Store;
  using System.Globalization;
  

• Create a method that does the following:

  • Defines a string variable named "relativePath" to store the server-relative path to the object. The following example path sets the object identifier to "5": /BI Center/Lists/PerformancePoint Content/5_.000.

  • Creates an instance of a Dashboard object named "updatedDashboard." For an example of how to create the object, see the CreateDashboard method.

• Paste the following code example into the new method.

// As a best practice, retrieve an object and then update it.
// The RepositoryLocation constructor takes the server-relative path to the object.
Dashboard requestedDashboard = SPDataStore.GlobalDataStore.GetDashboard(new RepositoryLocation(relativePath));

if (requestedDashboard != null)
{
    // Update the description to show the time of the last update operation.
    requestedDashboard.Description.Text = String.Format(
        CultureInfo.CurrentCulture,
        "Last updated at {0}",
        DateTime.Now.ToLocalTime());

    // Update the dashboard in the repository.
    updatedDashboard = SPDataStore.GlobalDataStore.UpdateDashboard(requestedDashboard);
}

See Also

Reference

SPDataStore Class

SPDataStore Members

Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards.Store Namespace