Does the REST API allow to retrieve the XML source code of Classic Dashboards?

[danielbb]

I sometimes lose the source code of a dashboard, and therefore, I wonder if I can automatically take a backup of my dashboards within time intervals by using the REST API, is this possible? Or is there by any chance already an existing app for this?

[bowesmana]

We have saved searches that run in certain sites that collect knowledge objects, dashboards, macros and so on, using the rest API as shown by @livehybrid. It writes the data to a summary index if the data has changed. Runs reasonably frequently, so there's always a recent backup to go back to if necessary.

[livehybrid]

Hi @danielbb 

Have a look at this:

| rest /servicesNS/-/-/data/ui/views | search eai:acl.app="<yourAppName>" version!="2" | table title eai:data

The 'eai:data' field contains the source code of the dashboard. The version field is 2 for Dashboard Studio or 1/1.1 for Classic dashboards.

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