Medecision Analytics supports exporting and importing of dashboards. This is useful for copying dashboards between separate Medecision Analytics installations, and also for making backups.

Dashboards are exported as files with a .dash extension, which can then be imported.

Administrators and Designers can export dashboards and import them into multiple instances of Medecision Analytics. When you export a dashboard or multiple dashboards, a single .dash file is created. Then, when the .dash file is imported into another instance of Medecision Analytics, all the dashboards are added to the main Analytics page.

To export dashboards to a .dash file:

Option #1a (Single dashboard)

In the Navigation Pane on the left of the Medecision Analytics environment, click the dashboard's menu and click Export Dashboard.

OR

Option #1b (Single dashboard)

Open the dashboard's menu and click Export.

Option #2 (Multiple dashboards)

In the Navigation Pane on the left of Medecision Analytics, click

.

OR

In List view, select all the relevant dashboards and click

.

All of these methods prompt you to download the .dash file and save it to disk.

After you have downloaded the exported file, you or your users can import it into their instance of Medecision Analytics. For more information, see Importing Dashboards below.

**Note:*** If a BloX custom action is created on an environment through the BloX design panel, and a dashboard is exported/imported into another environment, the custom action does not transfer as part of the `.dash` file. It needs to be independently created in each environment. * The `.dash` file only contains the dashboard structure, _not the share configuration_.

To import a dashboard:

When importing and overwriting a co-authored dashboard, you can select whether to overwrite the private copy or the shared version.

The Overwrite Private/Shared Copy options are only available when the [Dashboard Co-Authoring](sharing-dashboard.htm#Assignin) feature is enabled.