Reporting Center pages and dashboards provide quick access to ACI business intelligence and performance management information, such as reports, metrics, or news items. The information is relevant to specific users or business objectives, and can be monitored at a glance.
Dashboards are pages with enhanced functionality. The information is displayed on multiple tabs that are easy to navigate. Each tab can include different segment of information. A dashboard can be accessed as a standalone application through a URL. Users can print selected dashboard pages.
The content for pages and dashboards is provided by ACI portlets, or other supported portlets. Each portlet is an independent application that adds to the page different content and functionality, such as the ability to browse folders and entries, view reports and metrics, and include custom text and images or links to other Web pages.
You can add different types of information to your pages and organize them in a way that is meaningful to you. For example, you may want to see specific ACI reports and metrics, or have links to your favorite Web sites.
The following table shows the types of content you can add to an Reporting Center page, and the portlets that provide this content.
Page Content | Portlet | Group |
|---|---|---|
Browse ACI folders, reports, and other entries | Navigator | Content |
Search for ACI reports and other entries | Search | |
View and interact with ACI reports and other entries | Report Viewer | |
View and interact with different types of performance metrics, such as the metrics you want to monitor closely, or the metrics for which you are directly responsible. | Metric List | Metrics |
Add a metric history chart that illustrates the historical performance of the metric | Metric History Chart | |
Display an impact diagram associated with a metric | Metrics Impact Diagram | |
Display a custom diagram associated with a scorecard. | Metrics Custom Diagram | |
View and interact with custom applications created using ACI Software Development Kit | Extended Applications | Extended Applications Portlet |
Register and show active links to other Web pages | Bookmarks Viewer | Utility |
Add and view custom images, such as logos | Image Viewer | |
Insert any other Web page | HTML Viewer | |
Add and show the content of a Real Simple Syndication (RSS) news feed specified by a URL | RSS Viewer | |
Add and view custom text and images | HTML Source | |
Create and view a dashboard with multiple tabs | Multi-page | Dashboard |
Add non-ACI items to a page | Supported other portlets | Content associated with other portlets |
The list of pages is cached in an Reporting Center session. When the state of a page changes during the current session, users who have access to the page are affected. For example, when a page is disabled or deleted, it can no longer be used and its tabs are deleted or not functional. To update the portal with the most current settings, use the Reporting Center refresh button.
When you log on to Reporting Center for the first time, you access the pages an administrator made available to you. Later, you can create your own pages.
You can perform the following page-related tasks in Reporting Center:
create pages and dashboards
edit pages
share pages with other users
modify portlets
enable communication between portlets
add, remove, or reorder the portal tabs
change your home page
add interactivity to pages and dashboards
