About Custom Print and Export Layouts

You can create and define custom layouts for printing and exporting an entire dashboard or a single dashboard page.

Custom layouts allow you to:

• Produce high-quality printed dashboard content.
• Export dashboard content customized for Excel.

When you create a custom layout:

• The dashboard page is exported to Publisher, and the following items are auto-generated:
  • A Publisher report with a layout based on the exported dashboard layout.
  • A data model to retrieve data for the dashboard page components.
• The Publisher Report Editor opens in a new browser window with the auto-generated layout displayed as a thumbnail. The report editor allows you to edit, delete, or add a layout.

When you’re creating a print layout, Publisher doesn’t support some of the customizations and views such as hierarchical columns and map views.

After you’ve saved the custom layouts in Publisher, they’re available for that dashboard and appear in the Custom Print & Export Layouts area of the Print & Export Options dialog.

If you delete the data model or the layouts manually from the Catalog, then the associated Publisher report won’t work, and the layouts aren’t available. If you delete an analysis, then the data model and layout are available but fail when run.