Dashboard page

Use a dashboard page to view and navigate a dashboard.

Note:

Content designers can specify that the execution of dashboard pages be delayed. For those pages, the actual content of analyses is not loaded initially. Instead a message and static information about the objects that were not loaded are displayed.

The message indicates that the page is not fully loaded and instructs you to select prompt values and click the Continue button. Clicking Continue reloads the content on the page using the prompt values you specify. If you do not specify prompt values, then default prompt values are used.

See "Delaying the Execution of Dashboard Pages."

For more information, see:

Components

Page Tabs

Use the tabs across the top of the viewer to select the dashboard page to view and navigate.

Toolbar

The toolbar contains the Page Options button, which displays the following options:

Edit Dashboard — Use this button to display the "Dashboard builder," where you modify the dashboard, if you have the appropriate permissions.

Permissions to modify dashboards (personal and shared) are granted by the administrator.

For more information on the Dashboard builder, see "What Is the Dashboard Builder?"
Print — Displays the print options that are available for a dashboard page. Possible options are:
- Printable PDF — Use this option to print to PDF using a standard layout.
- Printable HTML — Use this option to print to HTML using a standard layout.
- One or more custom print layouts.
  
  Using a custom print layout allows you to produce high-quality printed dashboard content. For information on custom print layouts, see "About Creating Custom Layouts for Printing and Exporting Dashboard Pages."
For how to print a dashboard page, see "Printing Dashboard Pages."
Export to Excel — Displays the export options that are available for a dashboard page. Possible options are:
- Export Current Page — Use this option to export the current dashboard page to Microsoft Excel 2007+.
- Export Entire Dashboard — Use this option to export the entire dashboard to Microsoft Excel 2007+.
- One or more custom export layouts.
  
  Using a custom export layout allows you to export dashboard content customized for Excel. For information on custom export layouts, see "About Creating Custom Layouts for Printing and Exporting Dashboard Pages."
When you export to Excel, the state of the dashboard (such as prompts or drills) is maintained.

When you export the entire dashboard, each page is included on its own sheet in the Excel workbook, and each sheet is given the name of its corresponding dashboard page.

For how to export a dashboard or dashboard page to Excel, see "Exporting Dashboards and Dashboard Pages."
Refresh — Use this option to refresh the results of analyses included in the dashboard page.
Add to Briefing Book — (This option is not available on an empty dashboard page or if the Show Add to Briefing Book box in the "Dashboard Properties dialog" has not been selected for the page.) Use this option to display the "Save Briefing Book Content dialog," where you add the contents of a dashboard page to a briefing book.

For more information, see "What Are Briefing Books?" and "Adding Content to New or Existing Briefing Books."
Create Bookmark Link — Use this option to create a bookmark link.

If drilling in an analysis that has been set to replace a dashboard with the new results (rather than show the new results directly in the dashboard), then the Create Bookmark Link is displayed as a link under the new results rather than as an option on the Page Options menu. (To specify how drilling works in an analysis, you use the Drill in Place option on the Properties menu for a section. For more information, see "Properties Buttons for Objects."

This option is not available if the administrator has disabled it. For more information on controlling the display of this option, see "Enabling the Ability to Create Links to Dashboard Pages" in System Administrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

For more information, see "What Are Bookmark Links?" and "Creating Links to Dashboard Pages."
Create Prompted Link — Use this option to create a prompted link.

This option is not available if the administrator has disabled it. For more information on controlling the display of this option, see "Enabling the Ability to Create Links to Dashboard Pages" in System Administrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

For more information, see "What Are Prompted Links?" and "Creating Links to Dashboard Pages."
Apply Saved Customization — Use this option to apply a saved customization — either a personal saved customization or a shared saved customization.

For more information, see "Applying Saved Customizations."

Save Current Customization — Use this option to save your current customization.

Note:

Values that you pin for KPI dimensions referenced in scorecards are not saved with this option. For more information on pinning values, see "What Are Dimensions and Pinned Dimension Values?"

For more information, see "Saving Customizations."

Edit Saved Customizations — Displays the "Edit Saved Customizations dialog," in which you edit details of your saved customizations.

For more information, see "Editing Saved Customizations."
Clear My Customization — Use this option to clear your current customization.

For more information, see "Clearing Your Current Customization."