Make default dashboards available

This procedure explains how to provide default dashboards in ARIS.

For demonstration purposes, you can display demo dashboards that are available in the United Motor Group demo database.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. Import the default XML documents. You can either do a bulk import using a command line tool (for initial installation only) or copy the documents using WebDAV.

    These documents are used by the default data feeds. This imported static content is used to generate demo dashboards.

    If default dashboards are provided, you can use demo dashboards connected to the United Motor Group demo database. Demo dashboards use static data to give you an overview about the functional range of charts used in the United Motor Group demo database. Demo dashboards are for demonstration purposes only. This fictive data is stored in initially imported default XML documents. When reports update XML documents, demo dashboards are no longer provided properly because the fictive data used to generate the demo dashboards is overwritten.

    You can use the demo dashboards to learn about usage and functionality of related charts (see also ARIS online help: Use ARIS > Use dashboards > Good to know).

    If you use default dashboards to display own productive data, you must update the xml documents regularly by scheduled reports (see step 6). These reports are used to create and update input data used by the default data feeds to generate default dashboards. When reports update XML documents, demo dashboards are no longer provided properly because the fictive data used to generate the demo dashboards is overwritten.

    Warning

    Do not import default xml documents to an updated ARIS installation. Otherwise, current data will be overwritten by static demo data and dashboards will no longer display your data.

  2. Import default dashboard content.

  3. Add an alias URL.

  4. Check default data feeds for issues.

  5. Publish the database as a process portal using the default or classic configuration set. After the XML documents were updated by the related reports, dashboards using Center of Excellence (CoE) data are only available if the published content is based on the default configuration set or a related modification set.

  6. Keep dashboard data up to date.

  7. Create a new dashboard_viewers user group in ARIS Administration and assign all users which should see dashboards but are no Dashboard administrators. Otherwise, you must assign permissions for all dashboards and the corresponding feeds separately to every user in the data feed editor.

All default dashboards, data feeds and documents are available in ARIS.

See also

Add a dashboard to the 'Overview' item

Add a dashboard to the 'Diagram' item

Add a dashboard to the 'Dashboard' item