Dashboard cant find it's data object

Hi All, 
 
I am currently having a look at Birt for the company that I work for. So far I have created a number of different dashboards using data from once of our databases. When I showed these to my boos he was happy with them but he said he wanted them too look more pretty at which point I mentioned dashboards. I also uploaded these reports onto ihub so he could see how that worked as well. It should be noted that I must have installed my JDBC driver correctly because I have been able to view multiple reports containing data from out SQL Database. 
 
I created the dashboards using birt designer professional and i now need to uploaded these on to Ihub. I have done this and this is where I am now getting the problem. The issue is that the dashboard will not load the data. Upon inspection on the uploaded report i have been looking at the data object and it says that it cannot be found. I then Uploaded the database object file to the resource folder of birt like i have done with ReportLibrarys and other things for my birt reports.
 
The problem is that even though both of the data objects have the same name they seem to be different instances. The one says that it cannot be found and was already there when i uploaded the report.
 
The other is the one i uploaded. I can use this to create identical reports to the ones that i have created but if i do this it would then mean that i have to crwated all of the dashboards again. 
 
What i would like to know is the proper procedure in which to upload the dashboard and its corresponding data object so that a pre made dashboard can be uploaded to the ihub and viewed/ edited effectively. I'm guessing that may not work so any help or solutions would be extremely welcome. hope I explained ok.
 
Thanks in advance )

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micajblock

Ben,
All folder locations are relative. There are 2 options when publishing content from the project in BD Pro. 
 
Option 1 - Publish files. In this case reports and dashboards can go anywhere on BIRT iHub. The data objects need to be under the resources folder. By default data objects are in a sub-folder (named Data Objects) so they need to be in a sub-folder under resources with the same name. That way reports and dashboards should work. More info - <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://developer.actuate.com/be/documentation/ihub3-dev/DAG/index.html#page/DAG/do-PublishingADataObj.html'>http://developer.actuate.com/be/documentation/ihub3-dev/DAG/index.html#page/DAG/do-PublishingADataObj.html</a> <a>and http://developer.actuate.com/be/documentation/ihub3-dev/adg/adg81/index.html#page/ADG/pr-HowToPublishAReportDesign.html</a> 
 
Option 2 - Publish Project. This is when you want to create a self contained app (no user customize-able content). In this case BD Pro should put everything in the same directory structure with the name of your project as the root. In this scenario the folder structure is self contained so you should have same folder structure on the iHub as you have in BD Pro. More information here - <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://developer.actuate.com/be/documentation/ihub3-dev/adg/adg81/index.html'>http://developer.actuate.com/be/documentation/ihub3-dev/adg/adg81/index.html</a>