Configuring Widgets

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The new dashboard Wizard provides step four Configure Elements (widgets) in your dashboard. Widgets are UI (User Interface) elements that are used in your dashboard to display your enterprise data. The BI Architect provides the following list of choices for you to choose from. At step three, the layout you have selected may contain one or more of the following.

 

Chart widgets
Table widgets
Pivot Table widgets
Cross Table widgets
Text Widgets

Usage

The Wizard will now display the Configure Elements screen. This screen will walk you through, step by step, configuring each widget in your dashboard. In this example, configuration is needed for both the Table and Chart widgets. Here you will notice our first item to configure is the Table widget.

 

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Figure 1: Configure the visualization widgets present in the dashboard using the Wizard.

 

Depending upon the layout you have selected, you will need to configure each Visualization Widget in your dashboard. You can learn more about the configuration options you have for each of your Visualization Widgets here.