Chapter 3. Creating a Simple Dashboard

Dashboards are used to quickly and easily monitor the overall health of a business area by providing executive-level insight into key business metrics. In Interactive Reporting, dashboards are created by combining supporting presentation sections of the software with interactivity usually through custom JavaScript programming. The complexity of the dashboard development process can vary widely depending on the number of interfaces and amount of custom interactivity desired.

This goal of this chapter is to present the procedural steps required to create a simple dashboard without the use of JavaScript. The following three chapters will evolve this simple dashboard example and will present methods to appropriately add interactivity across multiple dashboard objects.

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Dashboard planning and preparation

• The BMV...