Saving a dashboard

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To save the dashboard diagram you created in Creating a dashboard:

Click File > Save.
Type firstDashboard in the File name field.
Select the file format.

The Dashboard Editor supports two formats: XML (.idbd) and binary (.idbin).

Available dashboard file formats
Click Save.

By default, Rogue Wave® JViews dashboard diagram files are saved in binary format in the Dashboard Editor installation directory. That is:

<installdir>/jviews-diagrammer810/samples/dashboard/dashboardeditor.

The binary format has the following advantages over the XML format.

It is faster to save and load.
The generated file is smaller.
It needs less application memory when loading and saving the file.

The dashboard XML format is more portable. If you need to share dashboard files with applications based on different versions of JViews Diagrammer, use the XML format.

A dashboard application or editor based on a later version of JViews Diagrammer can load the binary files saved in earlier versions of Dashboard Editor. However, a binary file saved by a later version might not be loadable by earlier versions of Dashboard Editor.

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