The Impact Manager module JavaScript Update feature is equivalent to the Dashboard Development Services Update Utility on the client. JavaScript Update enables users to use the latest dashboard features without having to re-create documents from scratch.
The Impact Manager module includes a configuration file that determines the sections and controls, such as; text labels, drop-down lists and list values, to be updated, added, removed, or transferred to the target file.
An Interactive Reporting document called newsections.bqy is available that contains the latest version of the dashboard infrastructure. The JavaScript Update feature opens the nominated target documents and performs a comparison of section names, by examining if sections exist in newsections.bqy and the Interactive Reporting document to be updated. If sections exist in both, the sections in the target document are removed and replaced by sections from newsections.bqy.
This process is described in these topics: