Cooperative views

Views are cooperative when they can interact with each other or be updated, based on an action done in one view. The views become cooperative when a wire (connection) is created between a source view and a target view, using the WebSphere® Portal administrative capabilities.

The WebSphere Business Monitor views are cooperative when a certain action performed in one view updates one or more other views. For every two cooperative views, the created relationship is in one direction. That is, one view is regarded as the source view, and the other as the target view. The source view sends data that the target view receives. The sent data is created as a result of an action performed in the source view. The target view reacts to the data it receives and is updated automatically.

For the shipped dashboard views, the source and target views must be on the same dashboard. You can establish multiple wires between the same two views, where in each connection, a particular type of data is selected to be sent and received.

To configure wires between cooperative views, the dashboard administrator uses the Portlet Wiring Tool provided in the WebSphere Portal. The tool can be used to create wires from a single source view to one or more target views. A single view can be wired to one or more target views, as described in the table below. Existing wires can also be deleted using this tool.

A target view, in a particular wire, can be used as a source view in another wire. For example, the Active Instances view can be a target view in a wire with the Alerts view, while at the same time be a source view in a wire with the Process Diagrams view. Although the Active Instances view exists in these two wires, it is handled independently on each wire. While changing the source view (Alerts view) will cause a change in the Active Instances view on the first wire, this action will not affect the second wire, neither its source view (Active Instances view) nor the target view (Process Diagrams view).

After any target view has been updated one or more times by actions in the source view, you may want to restore the target view to the original display. Restoring the view makes it display data according to the configured settings.

The following table lists the supported cooperative views wires that can be created by the administrator on a dashboard.
Supported cooperative views wires
Source View Target View Description
Active Instances view Process Diagrams view

You can display a diagram that represents a particular process instance. To display a process instance diagram, you have to establish a wire from the Active Instances view targeting the Process Diagrams view. When a process instance is selected from the Active Instances view, the Process Diagrams view displays the diagram of the selected instance.

Alerts view Process Diagrams view

By creating a wire from the Alerts view targeting the Process Diagrams view, you can automatically display a process instance diagram in the Process Diagrams view, based on the particular alert (Alert source icon) you select from the Alerts view.

Alerts view Active Instances view

A wire can be established from the Alerts view targeting the Active Instances view. When you click an alert (Alert source icon) from the Alerts view, the associated process instance is displayed in the Active Instances view with the associated business measures.

Organizations view Reports view A wire can be established from the Organizations view targeting the Reports view. You can automatically filter your report data based on the assigned employee that you select from the Organizations view.
Related concepts
View modes
Dashboards access control
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) view
Scorecards view
Alerts view
Gauges view
Active Instances view
Reports view
Dimensions view
Organizations view
Process Diagrams view
Export Values view
Instances filtering
Dashboards and views
Related tasks
Wiring dashboard views
Configuring Active Instances view
Modifying Active Instances view visual appearance
Administering instances
Drilling down instances
Setting filter criteria
Administering dashboards and views
Related reference
Dashboards
WebSphere Portal information
Cooperative views reference
Active Instances view reference
DB2 Alphablox

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