Creating Custom Layouts for Printing and Exporting Dashboard Pages

You can create custom layouts for printing and exporting dashboard pages For more information about creating custom layouts, see "About Creating Custom Layouts for Printing and Exporting Dashboard Pages."

To create one or more custom layouts for printing and exporting a dashboard page:

1. Edit the dashboard that contains the dashboard page for which you want to create a custom layout. For information, see "Editing Dashboards."

2. Navigate to the dashboard page.

3. Click the Tools button and select Print & Export Options. The "Print & Export Options dialog" is displayed.

4. Click the Custom Print & Export Layouts button and select Create Layouts. BI Publisher Report Editor opens (in a new browser window) with the autogenerated layout displayed as a thumbnail.

   
   

   Note: The administrator can control the display of the Custom Print & Export Layouts component. For information, see "Enabling the Ability to Export Dashboard Pages to Oracle BI Publisher" in System Administrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

   
   

5. In BI Publisher:

   1. Edit the layout as desired and save it.

   2. Create additional layouts, as desired.

   3. Exit BI Publisher.

6. If you want to make custom layouts available to end users for the dashboard page, display the Print & Export Options dialog by clicking the Tools button and select Print & Export Options.

7. For each custom layout in the Custom Print & Export Layouts area that you want to make available, select:

   • PDF to make the layout available in the Print menu of a dashboard page.

   • Excel to make the custom layout available in the Export to Excel menu of a dashboard page.

8. Click OK.

9. Save the dashboard.