Delaying the Execution of Dashboard Pages

You can delay the execution of dashboard pages, if allowed at your organization. This is helpful, for example, if you want to:

• Enhance performance by generating queries only when actual data is needed

• Allow end users to specify prompt values (rather than use default prompt values) before analyses content is displayed on a dashboard page

When the execution of a dashboard page is delayed, the actual content of analyses is not loaded. Instead:

• A message is displayed at the top of the page, which indicates that the page is not fully loaded. It also instructs the end user to select prompt values and click the Continue button. Clicking Continue reloads the content on the page using the prompt values the end user specifies. If the end user does not specify any prompt values, then default prompt values are used.

• Static information about the objects that were not loaded is displayed, including the object name, an icon representing the object view, the view name, and the object description (if available).

• On the Page Options menu (displayed from the Page Options button on the Dashboard page toolbar), all options except the Edit Dashboard option, are disabled.

• The Apply button on dashboard prompts is not displayed. Instead any prompt values will be applied automatically when the end user clicks the Continue button.

Note that while the content of analyses is not loaded on the dashboard page, other objects (such as dashboard prompts, embedded content, text, and so on), are loaded.

Oracle BI EE remembers whether the execution of a page was delayed. When a user visits the same page again in the same context, it will load the entire page (rather than delay the execution), if the page had previously been loaded.

To delay the execution of a dashboard page:

1. Edit the dashboard. For information, see "Editing Dashboards."

2. Click the Tools toolbar button and select Dashboard Properties.

   The "Dashboard Properties dialog" is displayed.

3. Locate the page in the Dashboard Pages area and select the Prompt before Opening box.

   
   

   Note: The administrator can control the display of the Prompt before Opening box. For information, see "Manually Changing Presentation Setting Defaults" in System Administrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

   
   

4. Click OK.

5. Click the Save toolbar button.