Dashboard Sections

Dashboards are customizable documents that enable developers to build and deploy analytic applications and end users to access information.

The dashboard sections of Interactive Reporting provide a streamlined, push-button approach to querying databases, combining reports, and enhancing controls to develop and deliver prepackaged business content that includes these items:

Simple forms to collect multiple input parameters for a report
Executive dashboard applications, with visual drill-down from high-level metrics to underlying data
Browser-style navigation pages to assist users in maneuvering within and between documents

Within Interactive Reporting Studio and Interactive Reporting Web Client, developers can customize dashboard sections to create interfaces that focus on the data views relevant to end users. When an end user opens an Interactive Reporting document file, the customized dashboard section is displayed.

Users navigate dashboard sections by clicking buttons and entering parameters. Button clicks, item selections, or navigation sequences invoke scripts that are processed in the background. No in-depth knowledge of the data structure or the Interactive Reporting Studio and Interactive Reporting Web Client applications is required.