The first time you launch a newly defined dashboard, the layout of your process environment is determined by the order in which the elements appear in the dashboard definition file. You can use Dashboard Builder to adapt the layout of a Performance Dashboard to meet your requirements.
The following examples are based on the demo dashboard.
Absolute positioning
For each process group in your dashboard, you can specify whether the subordinate processes will be positioned automatically or in absolute terms.
The Core processes process group in the demo dashboard uses absolute positioning - the subordinate processes are arranged in two slightly offset rows. If you switch to Automatic positioning in Dashboard Builder, all processes will be displayed in one row. Re-enabling the Absolute positioning option restores the original absolute positioning.
With absolute positioning, you can freely position the processes using drag and drop.
Aligning items
If you have selected the Automatic positioning option for a process group, you can select horizontal or vertical as the alignment for the subordinate processes. The order is retained whichever you choose.
Assign processes
If you have selected the Automatic positioning option for a process group, if there is a process in this group that is assigned to another process group, you can display this process group below the process.
Select the Communication & information process from the Support processes process group and enable the Display process group option.
Arranging main process groups
To change the arrangement of the main process groups, select the main process group you want and drag it over the main process group after which you want to insert it.
Using background graphics
To use a background graphic for a process group, you must define a style called backgroundImage in the assigned style template and specify the storage location of the graphic file in the imageName. You can then enable the background graphic display in Dashboard Builder.
Example:
<styledeclaration name="backgroundImage"
imageName="config/umg_de/worldmap_blue.png"
/>
Background graphics can only be used with absolute positioning. The background graphic is only displayed within the inner frame of a process group.
Moving processes
You can move processes from one process group to another simply by dragging them with the mouse. The assignment of favorites of the measure queries for the moved process remains unchanged.
Updating style templates
To activate changed or new style templates in the current dashboard session, you can reload the style templates for your dashboard using the corresponding button. To update linked background graphics, you must reload the corresponding dashboard page.
Visibility of queries
You can hide aggregation queries and measure queries of a process. The visibility of a query has no influence on the calculation of goal accomplishment and overall goal accomplishment.
The aggregation queries for processes are normally hidden and only the performance indicators of the aggregation queries are displayed within the process in the form of digital traffic lights. To edit a hidden aggregation query, you must first show it.