The Power of Dashboards

Dashboards typically provide an overview by showing summary data. The versatility of dashboards enables you to chart, evaluate, highlight, comment on, and even change key business data. For example, you can change a driver in a form that is in a dashboard and immediately see its impact in other forms and charts:

You create dashboards by simply dragging and dropping a variety of objects from the design pallet to the dashboard canvas.

With dashboards, you can:

Include multiple forms that dynamically update, including their associated charts, as users change data in the form.
Include tiles that display a specific value from the cube. To provide the value for each tile, you can specify a form or a cell intersection as a data source.
Switch between using the design pallet and runtime mode, so you can see exactly what the dashboard user will see.
Depict data interactively with a wide variety of chart types such as area, bar, bubble, column, combination bar and line, doughnut, funnel, gauge, scatter, radar, and so on.
Control the dashboard’s layout. For example, two forms can consume the top half of a dashboard and three charts can each consume 33% of the bottom half.
Depending on the form design, enable users to drill down into underlying detail and select which members to work with.
Include user variables in the global POV bar and the local POV.
In certain charts, customize the colors and line width, and show or hide gridlines.
Add links to dynamically display external Web pages.
In Dashboard 2.0:
- Add up to 12 components within a dashboard
- Add up to 10 tiles in a tile chart type
- Add hierarchical labels in charts
- Use a logarithmic scale in relevant chart types
- Add a secondary Y-axis in relevant chart types
- Render the dashboard in Default, Light, and Dark background colors using the Style property
- Use grid display with write-enabled grids (used with Forms 2.0)
- Enjoy other usability improvements such as more screen space, options to open and edit a form directly, option to edit a dashboard without data, automatically apply POV changes, and hide dimension names
- Drill down on more than one row or column dimension. For example, in a dashboard chart with two or more row dimensions, you can drill down to the next level of members for the primary row dimension, and then drill into the secondary row dimension. This enables you to view data for a particular cell, including data for the selected child members of the primary dimension.
- Improved Rules on Save with dashboards: with/without runtime prompts before/after Load/Save
- Migrate easily from Dashboard 1.0

When users use a dashboard (referred to as runtime), they can set many aspects of the object, such as the type of chart displayed, the dashboard’s title, and so on. A toolbar is available for each object type. Dashboard users can change and save data, run rules, and so on. However, changes made in runtime to the chart type options aren't saved for the next session. Clicking Save in runtime saves the data, but not the dashboard definition.

Service Administrators create, redesign, delete, and assign permissions to dashboards and dashboard folders.