4 Building Dashboards

This section describes how to build dashboards to provide personalized views of corporate and external information in Oracle BI Enterprise Edition.

Topics:

• Typical Workflow for Building Dashboards

• Creating Your First Dashboard

• Editing Dashboards

• Adding and Deleting Pages in Dashboards

• Preparing to Print Dashboards

• Organizing Dashboard Pages in Briefing Books

• Improving the Time to Display Dashboard Pages with Default Selections

• Recalling Personalized Settings

• Linking to Dashboard Pages

For more detailed information about building dashboards, see Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

Typical Workflow for Building Dashboards

To start building dashboards, refer to the typical workflow described in the following table:

Task	Description	More Information
Create multiple analyses	Build analyses on which you can create views that you display on a dashboard.	Creating Your First Analysis
Create a dashboard	Create a dashboard to display data from analysis.	Creating Your First Dashboard
Add content to a dashboard page	Add content to dashboard pages to display items such as views and prompts.	Adding Content to Dashboard Pages
Add prompts to dashboard pages	Add prompts to dashboard pages to drive the content on the pages.	Adding Prompts to Dashboard Pages
Add pages to a dashboard	Optionally add one or more pages to the dashboard to display the data in various ways.	Adding Pages to Dashboards
Recall personal settings for dashboards	Create customizations that enable you to view pages in their current state or with your favorite choices already selected.	Recalling Personalized Settings