Dashboard Building Process

Interactive Reporting Studio facilities are used to construct queries, charts, pivots, reports, and computed items that are used in dashboards. Dashboards built with Dashboard Studio are created as wrappers for the sections and are presented as manageable information packages.

Dashboard Studio, a wizard-driven application, connects to and works with Dashboard Studio templates. Templates become dashboards created with Dashboard Studio and are deployed at the end of step eight.

The dashboard building process using the Dashboard Studio wizard interface consists of eight steps:

  1. Queries, results, tables, charts, pivots, reports, computed items, and filters are created and named.

  2. Dashboard frames are created and named.

  3. Frames are populated with Interactive Reporting Studio sections.

  4. Frame objects are associated with underlying Interactive Reporting Studio sections and controls are set.

  5. Navigation targets are configured.

  6. Filters are configured.

  7. Dashboard properties are set.

  8. Dashboard style elements are set.

After completing the eight-step process, save an ESM and a deployable runtime version of the dashboard.