Saving and Publishing Dashboards

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Saving and Publishing Dashboards

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Dashboards may be saved as private dashboards, visible only to the author, or published to a wider audience (Cimera groups)

 

A user may only publish to a group if they have been assigned the Report Publisher role on the group. Administrators may publish dashboards such that they are visible to all users. Administrators may also edit any dashboard and re-assign ownership.

 

The publishing settings may be edited by selecting Menu File > Properties...

 

Publishing options dashboard

 

Dashboards default to being private.

 

Name

 

The name of the dashboard

 

Description

 

The dashboard's description. This will appear when hovering over the dashboard in the Shortcut Bar

 

Category

 

The Shortcut Bar category that the dashboard should appear within. Either select an existing category or enter a new one. When a category has no entries (either private or published) it will be removed from the Shortcut Bar.

 

Visibility

 

Whether the dashboard is private or public. If Public is selected more choices appear:

 

Publishing Options public

 

Owner / Owning Group

 

The owner of the dashboard - either a user (for a private dashboard) or a group (for a public dashboard). All public dashboards must be owned by a group and other users on that group with the Report Publisher role may then make changes to the dashboard.

 

Restrict access to these groups

 

For a public query this determines the groups that the dashboard is visible to. If no groups are selected then the dashboard is visible to all Cimera users, however only an administrator can make a dashboard fully public.

 

 

Accessing saved / published dashboards

 

Saved dashboards will appear in the Shortcut Bar. A private dashboard has an icon of a chart and a public dashboard has a chart with a + symbol top-right, for example:

 

Shortcut Bar - Private Dashboard

 

In addition saved queries also appear in the Query menu:

 

Dashboard menu

 

Queries within categories appear in sub-menus.

 

Published queries are annotated with [public].