Chapter 4. Introducing Dashboard Interactivity

The next steps in building an advanced dashboard is expanding from the introductory dashboard knowledge presented in the previous chapter to creating custom interactive components, modifying presentations sections, and applying filtering. This chapter will build upon the dashboard example in Chapter 3, Creating a Simple Dashboard, to create a customized dashboard with interactive components, including examples of several commonly-used Hyperion Interactive Reporting dashboard components and approaches.

This chapter will present approaches using JavaScript as well as key controllers and graphics tools, including the role the tools play in providing intuitive and useful dashboard capabilities to end users. The goal of this chapter is to provide the building blocks for creating a master dashboard layout with start-up scripts, navigation...