Minitab® evaluations in Management views

In order to display Minitab® evaluation graphics in a dashboard, a Management view (.html) must be created in a corresponding directory in the Web application, e.g., <installation directory>\ppmmashzone\server\bin\work\data_ppm\webapp\WEB-INF\config\umg_en\managementviews. In this Management view, the graphics supplied by the PPM server are referenced by a relative path. The root directory of the path is set in the file Template_settings.properties using the key ManagementViews2.FileBitmapBaseDirectory.

Example: Referencing Minitab® graphics in Management views

function initMVComponents() {

       mv1.init("mvParent1", "Umsatzanalyse.png", "FILE", "BITMAP", "100%", "260", []);

                            }

Detailed information on integrating image files in Management views is available in the Performance Dashboard User Guide.

Integrating Minitab® evaluations into Management views means that the authorization concept for the Management views is also applied to Minitab® evaluations. This means that by default, all users specified in the userlist XML element in the file _default_managementview_conf.xml are authorized to view Management views with Minitab® evaluations. If you do not want this, you must create a separate configuration file for the relevant Minitab® Management view. The naming conventions correspond to those for the default Management views.

It is possible to display any graphic using the path information for image files in the Template_settings and in the Management view, regardless of user and access privileges. There is no authorization concept for displaying images in Management views, unlike displaying favorite queries in Management view components.