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).

You must have access rights in WebSphere® Portal to perform this task. A dashboard must have been created previously to include the views that you want to wire. Other views can coexist as well, yet are not required. Only supported wires are possible.
To establish a wire between two views, complete the following steps:
  1. From the Portal banner, click Administration > Portal User Interface > Manage Pages.
  2. From the Content Root list, click My Portal.
  3. From the My Portal list, click the hyperlink to the label previously created. A list of one or more dashboards within the label is displayed.
  4. Click on the hyperlink to the dashboard whose views you want to wire.
  5. Click the Edit Page Layout button.
  6. Click the Wires tab.
  7. To wire the source view:
    1. From the Source Portlet list, select a source portlet.
    2. From the Sending list, select the data that you want the source view to send to the target view.
  8. To wire the target view:
    1. From the Target Portlet list, select a target portlet.
    2. From the Receiving list, select the data that you want the target view to obtain from the source view.
  9. Optional. Select the Personal check box, if you want this wire to be private and not available to other users.
  10. Click Add wire. The selected views are wired according to your settings. You can use them as cooperative views when you open the dashboard that contains them in the view mode.

    Repeat steps 7 through 10 to add other wires between views.


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