Understanding Dashboards and Visualizations

A dashboard is a collection of visualizations and searches. A visualization is based on search-engine queries on the indexed data. These visualizations are in the forms of charts, maps, tables, etc. PeopleSoft Search Framework delivers three system-monitoring dashboards, and each of the dashboards display two or more visualizations. For a list of delivered dashboards and visualizations, see Delivered Dashboards and Visualizations.

Search Framework enables you to create your own visualizations for PeopleSoft application data. Search Framework does not deliver any dashboard or visualization on application data, but in future PeopleSoft applications will implement some. Based on your business requirements, you may build your own dashboards and create visualizations. Typically, an application developer creates the dashboards and visualizations in OpenSearch Dashboards and imports them into PeopleSoft. These dashboards can be configured as a tile or as related information in a PeopleSoft application component. An end-user needs to add this tile to a home page. A dashboard configured as related information appears based on the users access to the component.

For instructions on creating visualizations, refer to Creating a Visualization for Application Data.