The individual cells within the Scorecard are called Data Cells. The top cells in each column are called Summary Cells as they summarize the column information. Right-clicking a cell displays a popup menu.
Note: When a cell contains hypertext, right-click the area between the left border of the cell and the first character of the hypertext to display the popup menu. This will avoid jumping to the destination of the hypertext.
The following options are available on the popup menu:
- Update: Enables you to perform the cell update. For more information on updating cells, refer to Updating Cells Directly.
Note: If the value displayed in a cell is defined to be calculated, is read-only, or if access is unauthorized, the Update option is replaced by an option appropriate to the situation.
- Override Indicator/Override Value: Available when right-clicking an indicator or a value, respectively. Selecting either option displays the Update tab of the Cell Properties dialog box . Refer to Updating Cells Directly.
- Cell Request: Displays the Cell Request dialog box. For more information, refer to Cell Request Dialog Box.
- Dashboard: Drills down to the dashboard for the cell. The drill-down to dashboard options are defined in the Category wizard's Dashboard step.
Note: For more information about dashboards, refer to Dashboards Module Overview.
- Trend: Displays the Trend tab of the Cell Properties dialog box , enabling you to view the cell history, a trend graph, and cell annotations. For more information on working with the Trend tab, refer to Viewing Trend.
- Select Entire Scorecard: Selects the whole scorecard, including the column headers and the Items/Portfolios column. This option is useful copying the scorecard to a spreadsheet application such as Microsoft Excel.
- Select All cells: Selects all Data cells in the scorecard, without the column headers and the Items/Portfolios column.This option is useful when copying only the data of the scorecard.
- Copy: Copies the selection to the clipboard.
- Paste: Pastes the selection from the clipboard to the location on the cursor in the scorecard.
- Cell Properties: Displays the Cell Properties dialog box where you can view indicators, values and update methods. The Cell Properties dialog box opens to the tab you last viewed. For more information on general cell information, refer to Working with Cell Properties.