Necto 16 Training Novaview to Necto Migration

Objectives• By the end of this lesson you will be able to:

• Perform full migration from NovaView to Necto:• Automatic migration• Manual migration• Thumbnails generation

Agenda•Automatic migration•Manual migration

Before Migration• Set read permissions on the E-BI folder on NovaView server

for the user that is running the migration

Using the Migration tool

Accessing the migration tool• Logon to the Necto server with the user that is running the Necto services.•Go to Start-> all programs-> Necto-> Necto Administration tools.• Click on the migration tool:

How do I migrate my views, books, data sources and models from my old NovaView server to my new Necto server?

The Migration tool interface

Browse for the E-BI folder

Click to establish connection with the NovaView server

Select the Migration mode

Enter the NovaView server E-BI folder path

Click migrate to start migration

Menu options

Click overwrite to overwrite all views, models and data sources in the Necto server

Click to backup existing Workboards in the Necto server

Click ignore view component caption to migrate dashboard components captions instead of view components captions

Click to restore backed up Workboards to the Necto server

Migrate thumbnails

Click Advanced.. To create thumbnails from NovaView’s server views.

Enter NovaView’s server URL

Click open to open a small window to view the thumbnails

Click generate thumbnails to start generating the thumbnails

Manual Migration

Exercise 1• Find a NovaView server to migrate views from and migrate

them to Necto• Uncheck the overwrite option.• Select automatic migration. Where can you see the migrated

views?• Do the same action this time with Overwrite option checked • What did the migration overwrite the views?

Exercise 2• Find a NovaView server to migrate views from and migrate

them to Necto.• Select manual migration. • Migrate only the data sources and models • Where can you see the migrated objects?

Thank you, any questions?