The Dashboard Development Services components are Interactive Reporting documents that can be merged with templates or dashboards and configured to perform their unique tasks. Components include buttons, graphics, and other style elements that extend dashboard functionality.
The Dashboard Studio Merge Utility is a module management mechanism that is used to combine a component with a template or dashboard and thus to produce documents that offer a variety of capabilities and features.
To merge a component with a template or dashboard:
Start Interactive Reporting Studio, and, on the Welcome dialog, click Cancel.
Start Dashboard Studio, click
, and select Merge, and select Select and Re-order Sections.Optional: To consolidate duplicate images into the Resource Manager, select Remove duplicate images from the final document.
All instances of an image are changed to reference the single copy of the image in the Resource Manager. The Interactive Reporting document file size and memory footprint are reduced. Thus, loading speed is improved, and reuse of existing images from the Resource Manager is made possible when creating dashboards and reports. See “Resource Manager” in the Hyperion Interactive Reporting Studio User's Guide.
Click
(next to Primary Document), and navigate to the template or dashboard that is to be merged with the component.Click
(next to Secondary Document), and navigate to <componentname>_component.bqy.A save path is generated.
Optional: To rename the file and change the default save path, click
(next to Save Path).Click Merge.
Select and Re-order Sections is displayed, with a list of sections from the secondary document.
Move selected sections between Available Sections and Selected Sections by clicking
and 
, or move all sections by clicking 
and 
.Optional: Reorder Selected Sections by selecting a section and clicking
or 
.Click OK.
A report detailing the sections that were merged is presented. Removed duplicate images are reported at the end of the report.
Click Save or OK.
Click View to view the merged Interactive Reporting document in Interactive Reporting Studio, and click Close.
Note:
When merging components into Dashboard Studio templates or Interactive Reporting documents, both BMP and GIF files are available.