The dashboard definition file contains the process structure of your ARIS model and determines the information that will be the content of your Performance Dashboard.
The Performance Dashboard definition file has the following additional content:
Name and language-specific title of the Performance Dashboard
One (or, at the top level possibly more) process group including title (language-specific)
For each process group, one or more processes including title (language-specific)
For each process, an aggregation query, one or more measure queries or an optional assigned value chain
For each query, a unique favorite name (including path), documentation of the query, a possible language-specific title and possible formatting information