Viewing a dashboard file

Dashboard files are available in Documents You Can View. Shared dashboard files are within the Dashboard folder of the Encyclopedia volume. To view a dashboard as a self-contained HTML document, choose any of the following links from the Information Console file explorer:

n	Document name, to view the newest version

n	Version number, to view a specific version

n	View file detail. In Select an Operation, select Open, shown in Figure 3-2, and choose OK.

Figure 3-2  Selecting operations for the file

n	View document, from the file icon’s hover menu

The hover menu appears in the Details, Icons, or List view when the mouse is over the file icon.

Figure 3-3 shows view options for a BIRT dashboard file.

Figure 3-3  Viewing a dashboard file from the file explorer

Users can maximize chart, report, and table gadgets in dashboard files to launch BIRT Interactive Viewer. Users can maximize cross-tab gadgets in these dashboards to launch BIRT Data Analyzer. For more information about maximizing gadgets, see Maximizing gadgets later in this section.

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