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.

You must have access rights in WebSphere Portal to perform this task.
To create a dashboard, 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. Click New Label.
  4. Type the name of the new label in the Title field, and then click OK. For example, Department 42 Dashboard.
  5. In the Page Properties page, click OK.
  6. From the Pages in My Portal table, click the hyperlink to the added label. The details of the label are displayed.
  7. Click New Page.
  8. Type the name of the new page in the Title field. For example, Executive Dashboard.
  9. Click OK. A confirmation message that the dashboard was created successfully appears is displayed.
  10. In the Page Properties page, click OK.
The dashboard is created with the label that you have defined.

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