Building and Using Dashboards

This chapter describes building and using dashboards in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. It also explains how to work with saved customizations, create dashboard template pages, publish dashboards, create links to dashboard pages, and work with briefing books.

This chapter includes the following sections:

• "What Are Dashboards?"

• "Who Creates and Edits Dashboards?"

• "What Is the Dashboard Builder?"

• "What Controls the Look-and-Feel of a Dashboard?"

• "About the Skyros Style"

• "Creating Dashboards"

• "Editing Dashboards"

• "Adding Oracle BI Publisher Reports to Dashboard Pages"

• "Changing the Properties of a Dashboard and its Pages"

• "Changing the Properties of Objects Added to Dashboard Pages"

• "Delaying the Execution of Dashboard Pages"

• "About Creating Custom Layouts for Printing and Exporting Dashboard Pages"

• "Creating Custom Layouts for Printing and Exporting Dashboard Pages"

• "Editing, Replacing, or Removing Custom Layouts"

• "Deleting Objects on Dashboard Pages"

• "Deleting Dashboard Pages"

• "Saving Dashboards by Other Names and in Other Locations"

• "Opening and Using Dashboards"

• "What Are Saved Customizations for Dashboard Pages?"

• "Saving Customizations"

• "Applying Saved Customizations"

• "Editing Saved Customizations"

• "Clearing Your Current Customization"

• "About Dashboard Template Pages for New Users"

• "Creating Dashboard Template Pages for New Users"

• "Publishing Dashboard Pages"

• "About Creating Links to Dashboard Pages"

• "Creating Links to Dashboard Pages"

• "Working with Briefing Books"