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Cognos Dashboard Creation
Business Intelligence
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What is a Dashboard?
A dashboard is a collection of information in one
place.
An effective dashboard is a collection of reports
that highlight meaningful information that can beacted upon.
High level summaries that easily allow access to
underlying detail.
Graphs that summarize large data sets efficiently.
Visual indicators that draw attention to key facts.
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Why make a Dashboard?
Ease of use
One centralized location for users
Simplifies navigation
Can be included in a Portal
Time savings
Visual indicators highlight items needing further attention
Users can be saved from running reports needlessly
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How to Create a Dashboard
1. Plan your design
Think about reports that would be useful
Think how the data would best be presented
Think about the visual layout
How will the dashboard be viewed
Grouping related data together makes for a logical layout
2. Write the dashboard as any other report. It just takes more
care arranging multiple report objects on one page.
3. Write your supporting drill through reports and setup yourdrill through definitions the dashboard.
4. (optional) Create a new portal page to display the
dashboard in its own tab.
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Example
For my example we will use this audit dashboard
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Example
This dashboard is meant to highlight report usage over time.
It will be displayed in a portal tab so sizing is important.
I want to organize it so related items are near each other.
Each chart has a drill through to a full scale version withadditional drill throughs for more detail
Each graph is 200 x 200
pixels in a 3 by 2 table.
Report
Grouping
User Grouping
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Example
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Creating a Portal Tab
You now have this portal tab. You just have to
define the settings of each element.
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Cognos Navigator
Tile is entered here, if left blank Cognos
Navigator is displayed.
Channel name allows reports to be opened in the
Cognos viewer.
Select the folder you want to display when the
page loads.
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Cognos Viewer
Tile is entered here, if left
blank the report name is
displayed.
Standard Report options.
Channel name that matches
what was entered in Cognos
navigator
Portal size only accepts the unit pixels.
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RSS Viewer
The RSS View just needs an
RSS url to display.
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Final Product
Html object
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Conclusion
We have created an effective dashboard portal
using a few simple objects.
A report with 6 graphs in a 3 by 2 table.
A portal page with 3 standard portal components Cognos Navigator
Cognos Viewer
RSS Viewer
With a little planning a very complex looking
dashboard is relatively simple to create.