The Dashboard section is a streamlined, push button approach to querying a database. Dashboards are ideal for users who do not have the time to build a query or design a report section. Up to the minute thumbnail views of data allow you to explore what is behind trends and indicators.
On opening the file, you have a customized dashboard, which may show Gauges, Live Charts embedded reports and navigational buttons and boxes that allow you to retrieve data, and populate controls.
Each button selection, item selection, or navigation sequence can invoke a script created by a Designer. Behind the scene, Interactive Reporting refreshes the Dashboard script commands that allow you to retrieve data, populate controls, hide objects, navigate to different sections, and specify report parameters.