Using the personal dashboard
In Information Console, a user can open a dashboard file from the My Documents file explorer or add a dashboard file to their personal dashboard. Each user receives a personal dashboard to display multiple dashboard files. Changes on a user’s personal dashboard persist across sessions in the user’s Information Console account. In Information Console, users add dashboard files to their personal dashboard by subscribing to a dashboard file.
The personal dashboard displays either shared or user dashboard files. Shared dashboard files enable groups of users to monitor the same charts and analyze the same data by subscribing to the same dashboard file. User dashboard files are private and enable individuals to build and manage their own dashboard files for personal use.
User types define what a user can accomplish with a dashboard file. The Information Console administrator manages the following user types:
All users can refresh dashboards, interact with data selector gadgets and maximize gadgets for access to browser-based tools such as BIRT Interactive Viewer and BIRT Data Analyzer. The dashboard file or gadget is reset each time it is viewed.
Business users are the same as basic users but also use report and extras gadget types to create and share dashboards. This user can subscribe to shared dashboard files, copy shared dashboards, and use shared gadgets in their own dashboards. Business users can also share their dashboards.
Dashboard developers are the same as business users but also create gadget scripts, use data visualization gadgets, and use data selection gadgets.