Summary

The goal of this chapter was to present the steps to create content for a simple dashboard and the steps to display the content on a Dashboard section. The chapter begins with a discussion on dashboard planning and the steps used to produce effective dashboards. The chapter continues with an introduction to the BMV USA Dashboard example and then progresses to creating sample pivot and chart content for the example dashboard. An overview of custom drill paths and methods for creating a Top 5 pivot are discussed, and the methods for creating and formatting Stacked Bar and Bar-Line charts for dashboards were presented. Then the methods for configuring and displaying content on a Dashboard section was discussed with an introduction to images, graphics, and hyperlinks, and adding interactivity on the dashboard...