9       Dashboards

BI Studio provides you a dashboard system (Dashboard Designer and Dashboard Viewer) to build business intelligence data visualization panels.  

9.1    Dashboard Designer

 The Designer allows you to add to panel pre-designed or newly added Reports, Charts, Tables, Queries, Pivot Tables, Power Views, Statistics, Images, Text, Web and Html Contents and other supported BI Modules.

You can thing the dashboard designer a one page report with components. It provides parameter component to query and visualize data dynamically using dynamic parameter values. The following dashboard components are available:

·         Report

·         Chart

·         Query

·         Parameter

·         Web Page

·         Image

·         Text

9.1.1  Parameters

Dashboard parameters help you to extend dashboard visualization components with dynamic values.  Using parameter setup dialog you can add a parameter and parameter type which will be visualized and input item by dashboard viewer.