Shell dashboards display project data in an at-a-glance format. You can control the dashboard appearance and content and make it specific to the shell with which you are working; however, shell dashboards cannot pull data from across shell hierarchies. For example, consider two anchor shells, which are seen as tabs, one is labeled "Capital Projects," and one is labeled "Facilities." The Capital Projects dashboard can display data from all levels of the Capital Projects hierarchy; however, it cannot display Facilities data because Facilities is the root of a separate, independent hierarchy.
Two types of dashboards are available in project shells:
- My Dashboard: All shells have a personal dashboard that a user can define if he or she has Setup permission. A user can configure My Dashboard in User Mode using the Edit Dashboard window. Users can select My Dashboard from the View Dashboard drop-down list on each shell.
- Shell dashboards: Shell dashboards allow users to view shell and subordinate shell data. This differs from My Dashboard in that a user cannot share his or her personalized dashboard. Administrators can create multiple shell dashboards per shell and push them via templates. Users can select this type of dashboard to view from the View Dashboard drop-down list on each shell. These dashboards are maintained at the shell level and are available to any user to view (but not edit) provided the user has permissions.
Each shell dashboard has at least one tab and can have up to five tabs. The default tab name is Summary, which you can change. The default shell dashboard layout contains these four blocks:
- Image: Displays the image your company administrator uploaded for the shell.
- In the dashboards, if there are multiple images, then Unifier displays all of the images as rolling images.
- When a shell has multiple images, Unifier uses the first image from the list to print the shell image through custom prints and reports.
- Items Requiring Your Attention: Contains items that are generally listed on the Unifier Home page, such as tasks and messages.
- Details: Lists shell details, including shell number, shell name, administrator, and other details.
- Links: List of links configured for the shell by your company administrator.
On each tab, you can select a different layout to which you can add blocks of these types:
- Standard: Use this selection to view project data from, for example, business process, manager, users, and active tasks.
- Portlet: Use this selection to view an external URL, such as a web cam, a frequently visited website, or Analytics application.
To view Analytics in the Portlet block, you need to perform additional and required configurations in OBIEE in order to allow the OBI analysis to render properly. Go to:
- Oracle Help Center: http://docs.oracle.com/en/
- Middleware > Middleware Documentation
- Oracle Fusion Middleware > Oracle Fusion Middleware Documentation
- Products > Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
- Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition [latest edition] > Books
- Administration > System Administrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
- Advanced Configuration Reference > Making Advanced Configuration Changes for Presentation Services > Protecting Pages in Oracle BI EE from Attack
- Drilldown: Use this selection to slice and dice project-shell data.
- Custom: Use this selection to view data from the current shell, subordinate shells, or both (cannot cross hierarchies).
- Analytics: Use this selection to access the link to the Analytics application.