Platform Analytics Migration Center
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Summary of Platform Analytics Migration Center
The Platform Analytics Migration Center facilitates the migration of Core UI data, including dashboards, reports, interactive filters, and Performance Analytics widgets, to Platform Analytics. This process results in a consolidated set of visualizations and unified filters across all data sources, enhancing accessibility and usability. The Migration Center is available only with the Next Experience enabled.
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Key Features
- Migration of Dashboard Content: Most Core UI dashboard content is migrated seamlessly to Platform Analytics, allowing users to access analytics through a unified navigation menu.
- Compatibility Mode: Some content that lacks an equivalent feature in Platform Analytics is migrated into containers (iframes) under Compatibility Mode.
- Migration Process Steps:
- Remove unused dashboards and reports for a streamlined process.
- Run the migration procedure to identify compatible content.
- Review migration results to exclude unwanted content.
- Activate the migration to finalize the process.
- Create custom content using tools like UI Builder for any unmet needs.
- Menu Transition: After migration, all analytics content is accessed under Platform Analytics > Library instead of the previous navigation paths.
- Block Migration Options: Customers can disable migration features through system properties to manage the transition effectively.
Key Outcomes
Following the migration, users can expect a more streamlined analytics experience with all relevant content available in a single location. The ability to create custom content and manage migration options allows for tailored user experiences and ensures that only relevant content is retained. This transition ultimately enhances data visualization and reporting capabilities within the ServiceNow environment.
When you migrate your Core UI data, your existing dashboards, reports, interactive filters, and Performance Analytics widgets are moved to Platform Analytics. When you activate the migration, the result is a single set of visualizations and unified filters for all data sources.
To learn more about Platform Analytics and the Migration Center, see the Platform Analytics enablement toolkit on the ServiceNow Community.
The Migration Center is only available when Next Experience is enabled. To enable Next Experience, set the value of the glide.ui.polaris.experience property to true.
Once migration is complete, you won't be able to add Core UI reports, PA widgets and filters to Platform Analytics experience dashboards. It is possible to add only migrated content and content created within Platform Analytics experience to these dashboards.
What is migrated
The migration process takes your dashboard content and migrates it from Core UI (Dashboards and visualizations in the classic environment) to the Platform Analytics library. You then access all of your analytics through a unified navigation menu. If you use indicators, you get tools to alert you of significant changes.
What isn't migrated
The short answer is that almost everything is migrated. Most Core UI dashboard content is supported in Platform Analytics. Some content doesn’t have an analogous Platform Analytics feature and is migrated into containers, also called iframes. This is called Compatibility mode. For detailed information about content migrated into iframes and the few items that aren’t migrated at all, see Content not migrated or migrated in compatibility mode.
What is the migration process
- Remove unused dashboards
- Remove any unused dashboards and reports to promote a streamlined process.
- Navigate to pa_dashboards.list, select the dashboards you want to delete, and then select .
- Navigate to , select the reports you want to delete, and then select .
- Run the migration procedure
- The procedure identifies what can be migrated directly into Platform Analytics and what is migrated in Compatibility Mode.
- Review the migration results
- You may identify dashboards or other content that you don't want to migrate, for example, unused dashboards, out-of-date visualizations, or filters that don't work as expected.
- Activate the migration
- Activation might be time-consuming, depending on how much content you are migrating.
Create custom content
You can use tools such as UI Builder to create custom content that meets the needs of content that doesn't migrate.
What happens to my menus
Before migration, users navigated to to view the dashboard overview and to to view the list of reports. After you activate the migration, all analytics content, including dashboards, data visualizations, filters, and KPIs are under .
Block Migration Options
You can disable the Start Moving and Activate
Platform Analytics experience options. Create the system property com.glide.par.coreui.migration.enabled and set it to False. If you set the property to
False before you migrate any content, both options are disabled. If you set the property to false after you migrate your content, only the Activate button is disabled.
If you want to start the migration and view what artifacts are in compatibility mode, and resolve any issues, set the property to False after you run the migration to prevent activation of Platform Analytics experience. If you want to prevent the migration process, set the property to False first.
For more information, see Add a system property.