Adding views

Views are components of dashboards that monitor aspects of business performance. After a dashboard is created, you can add views to it.

To add views, you must have access rights in WebSphere® Portal. A dashboard must have been created previously. You should create copies of the views that were shipped with the product before you add them to the portal pages (dashboards) to keep the default views unchanged. You want to avoid having the configuration settings of this view applied whenever you add another instance of the view.
To add a view to 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. From the My Portal list, click the hyperlink to the dashboard label.
  4. Click on the hyperlink to the dashboard page where you want to add a view.
  5. Click the Edit Page Layout Edit Page Layout icon.
  6. Click the layout you want. For details on layouts, click the help icon in the Page Properties page, or go to the appropriate section in the WebSphere Portal Information Center.
  7. Click Add Portlets.
  8. Find the available WebSphere Business Monitor views by browsing through the list of portlets, or by typing the view name in the Search field, and then clicking Search. You can also search on a unique name, such as: com.ibm.wbi, to find all available views.
  9. Select the view you want to add from the search results, and then click OK. The added view is displayed.
  10. In the Edit Layout page, click Done.
The selected view is added to the dashboard.

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