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Dashboard Component Properties - In InetSoft's Style Intelligence application, dashboard component properties grant end-users full control over the changes they wish to make to data visualizations. The ‘Properties’ dialog box for output components provides the following tabs: General, Data, Advanced, and Pre-Aggregate. The next sections discuss the output-specific properties available under these tabs. The General tab in the ‘Properties’ dialog box provides the following unique properties for output elements. Note: If you are connecting to the server via “https” in Internet Explorer, you may need to change the following Internet Explorer setting in order for the ‘Face’ property to update correctly: In Internet Explorer, open the ‘Internet Options’ dialog box, and click the ‘Browsing History Settings’ button to open the ‘Temporary Internet Files’ dialog box. Select ‘Every time I visit the web page’ under ‘Check for newer versions of stored pages’...

Dashboard Composer - InetSoft's dashboard composer is a unique and innovative approach to business intelligence that allows you to customize the way your data is displayed. When Visual Composer cannot automatically match your geographical data to the locations in the geographical database, the ‘Geographic Feature Names’ dialog box will prompt you to manually create the correct mapping. To manually match the geographical data with locations in the database, follow the steps below: 1. In the Hierarchy tab of...

Dashboard Conference Mailing - Users can create templates that efficiently mail conference reports out ahead of time, saving a great deal of time and effort, and available in InetSoft's comprehensive real-time analytical reporting solution and dashboard software. Compiling a custom mailing list for an upcoming conference is a necessary, but laborious, task. The functions provided by the Data Worksheet simplify this task. Say we are hosting a conference for select customers and we would like to send them printed invitations. Seating is limited, so sending an invitation to every customer would not be cost effective. Therefore, to narrow down the list of the customers to whom we will send the invitation, we can use their order history...

Dashboard Creation Best Practices - Dashboards allow users to create visual displays to monitor their business. They are executive information systems designed to be easy to follow. Not all dashboards are created equal, however. Depending on who or what makes a dashboard, some may experience one or many problems that come between the data and the user. A cluttered dashboard, for example, does not get its message across and may be detrimental to a business...

Dashboard Creation Objects - This section lists objects for for use in sales management dashboards and performance management dashboards. A Separator is a horizontal line across a page. It can be drawn using any one of the line styles supported by Style Intelligence. A Space element defines horizontal white space. The spacing is defined as points. The TOC element defines a Table Of Contents in a report. The items in a TOC element are automatically discovered from heading elements. A report only needs to specify the style of the TOC. A Report Bean is a reusable, customizable composite report element. The Bean object represents a report bean inside a report. Report Bean's properties are defined when a report bean is created in the Designer. The parameters defined on the bean can be accessed through the bean object. The StyleReport object is a static object that contains all definitions for constants used in the Style Intelligence host environment. These constants can be accessed without creating an instance of a StyleReport object, as shown below...

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Dashboard Crosstab Table - Users can integrate disparate data sources into crosstab tables and create sophisticated real-time reports using InetSoft's award-winning dashboard software. A crosstab table, also known as a pivot table, is the tabular equivalent of a chart. A Worksheet crosstab contains one column header, one or more row headers, and one measure. The values at the row-column intersections of the crosstab table represent summary (aggregate) information of the measure. For example, a crosstab with row headers representing 'Salesperson' and column headers representing 'Month of Year' might contain values at the intersections representing 'Average Sale Price' or 'Maximum Sale Price'. The measure in both cases is 'Sale Price'. The summarization method is, respectively, Average or Maximum. By using summarization, crosstab tables display large amounts of data in a compact form...

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