For BI authors
About the BI Dashboard tool
The Dashboard tool is a web-based authoring tool for Business IntelligenceBusiness Intelligence, often referred to as BI, refers to the skills, processes, technologies, applications and practices used to support decision making. This is also the name of the Pronto Xi BI module. reportA set of data deliberately laid out to communicate business information. Depending on the context, 'report' may refer to report specification or report output. Report (more precisely, report specification) is the generic term for the objects created or edited in Cognos Analytics. Pronto Xi Business Intelligence offers a suite of standard reports. authors and developers, that allows you to build sophisticated, multiple page and multiple query reports against multiple databases.
The following provides some of the information you need to get started with using the Dashboard tool.
For a tutorial about creating a sample dashboardA web page that can contain one or more widgets that graphically represent business data., see Creating a dashboard in the Cognos Analytics help.
To add a new report, select New > Dashboard in the navigation pane. You can select a single page, tabbed, or infographic page type and choose from the layouts available for each page type.
Then you add a data sourceA relational database, dimensional cube, file, or other physical data store that can be accessed through Pronto Xi Business Intelligence. to use for the dashboard, by clicking .
To edit a dashboard, locate the dashboard you want then click it. The dashboard is opened in the Dashboard tool in editing mode.
To viewA set of data connected to a cube, deliberately laid out to communicate business information. a dashboard, locate the dashboard you want, click then select . The dashboard is opened in the Dashboard tool in view mode. To edit it, click in the toolbar.
You can preview your dashboard with data by clicking to switch between view and edit modes.
To view in full screen mode, click .