Concepts in Designing Dashboards

Helpful information as you design dashboards:

• On the left is the design palette. Simply drag and drop objects from the palette to the canvas.

  Tip:

  Drag an object to a border line. The drag icon changes to a plus sign when you can drop the object in an allowed space. See About Your Dashboard Layout.

• On the top right are settings for the entire dashboard:
• Use Settings to set these aspects of the dashboard:

  
  
  

  Note:

  When a new dashboard is created, the borders are hidden by default. To show borders in newly created dashboards, you must change the borders setting to Show.

  Note:

  Only administrators can add files (for example, dashboards, infolets, forms, reports, and so on) to the Library root folder.

  For more information about POVs, see About Global and Local POVs.

• At the top right of each object is a toolbar for that object that displays when you hover over it:
• As you create a dashboard, click Runtime so that you can immediately see how the dashboard looks and works to a dashboard user. To return to designer mode to continue designing the dashboard, click Designer.