Dashboard views are available in three modes: configure, edit, and view. Users can prepare, change, and use dashboards to best suit their needs.
Configuring a view is the principal action performed on views. The dashboard administrator uses the configure mode to provide the basic and default configuration of the view. When you create a dashboard and add views, you initially see view frames with messages that the views are not yet configured. This configuration includes selecting the data content and the appearance of the view.
Before saving the view configuration, the dashboard administrator can preview the view and save the configuration or make more changes. If you want to change some configuration settings for either the data content or the visual appearance, you can at any time, using the configure mode, make your changes, preview them, and save the new configuration.
Editing a view means changing some of the configuration settings preset by the dashboard administrator. The dashboard administrator has to assign the Privileged User role to the user or the user group to make changes, through the WebSphere® Portal access control options. The edit mode stores view-personalization data for each user. If there are no saved personalization attributes, the default attributes come from the configuration settings.
The edit mode includes a subset of the settings that can be performed by the dashboard administrator using the configure mode. In general, this subset is limited to customization of the visual properties and not to the data content. All dashboard views support an edit mode, except for the Process Diagrams view and Export Values view. This view can only be configured by the dashboard administrator. Both the Reports view and the Dimensions view allow data-content manipulation, but not subject-area selection.