Dashboards and views are the components of WebSphere® Business Monitor that
businesses use to monitor their processes. Administering dashboards and views
includes creating, configuring, and managing them to suit the particular needs
of a business.
You must have access rights in WebSphere Portal to
perform these tasks.
Creating dashboards
A dashboard is a container (portal) that contains one or more
views (portlets). Dashboards are created as portal pages in WebSphere Portal as
part of a dashboard page hierarchy. The root of the hierarchy is called a
label; it does not contain views. The hierarchy consists of a set of child
pages that contain one or more views.
Adding views
Views are components of dashboards that monitor aspects of business
performance. After a dashboard is created, you can add views to it.
Configuring dashboard access control
The dashboard administrator can control users' access to and interaction
with dashboards using the security features in WebSphere Portal.
Configuring view access control
The dashboard administrator can control users' access to and interaction
with views on dashboards using the security features in WebSphere Portal.
Copying a view
Copying a view enables you to reuse the same view with a different
configuration. You can add copies to other dashboards and change their configuration.
Deleting a view
Deleting a view removes the portlet from your portal. You should
not delete the original views that were shipped with the product. You may
want to delete copied views.
Wiring dashboard views
Wiring views makes them cooperative; views are cooperative when
a particular action performed in one view (the source view) updates one or
more other views (the target view).
Controlling portlet width
You can change the default portlet widths assigned by WebSphere Portal to align the contents of your
dashboard page.