Opening and Using Dashboards

Perform the following steps to open and use dashboards:

1. In the global header, click Catalog to view the Catalog page.
2. Navigate to the dashboard and click the Open link. The dashboard is opened to the first Dashboard Page. If no content has been added, an Empty Dashboard Page notification message is displayed.
3. This is an optional step - You may choose to perform any of the following tasks:
   • Display the dashboard in the Dashboard Builder for editing.
   • Navigate among dashboard page by clicking the page tabs.
   • Print a page.
   • Refresh a page.

Perform this to ensure that the refresh operation bypasses saved information in the Oracle Analytics Presentation Services cache and is issued to the Oracle Analytics Server for processing.

When you select a specific dashboard or analysis, Presentation Services checks its cache to determine if the identical results have recently been requested. If so, Presentation Services returns the most recent results, thereby avoiding unnecessary processing by the Oracle Analytics Server and the back-end database. If not, the analysis is issued to the Oracle Analytics Server for processing. You cannot force the analysis past the Oracle Analytics Server cache.

Administrators can configure cache settings that control what is cached and for how long. For information, refer to Managing Performance Tuning and Query Caching in the Oracle Fusion Middleware System Administrator's Guide for Oracle Analytics Server.