InetSoft Technology: Dashboard Creation Objects

This section lists objects for for use in sales management dashboards and performance management dashboards.

Separator Object

A Separator is a horizontal line across a page. It can be drawn using any one of the line styles supported by Style Intelligence.

Space Object

A Space element defines horizontal white space. The spacing is defined as points.

TOC Object

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.

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Type

Description

BOOLEAN

true or false

BYTE

single byte number

CHAR

character

DATE

date with no time component

DOUBLE

double number

ENUM

user defined string constants

FLOAT

float number

INTEGER

integer number

LONG

long integer number

SHORT

short integer number

STRING

text string

TIME

time

TIME_INSTANT

time and date

Bean Object

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.

StyleReport 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:

line = StyleReport.DOUBLE_LINE

XType Data Types

The XType object contains all data type constants. The constants are used to specify the data type of a parameter when defining report parameters. The following types are defined in the XType object.

PageBreak Event Object

A PageBreak Event object is available in page break listener scripts. The event object can be used to check the information on the current page, such as the first element on the page and the last element on the page.

Selection Event Object

A Selection Event object is accessible using the global 'event' object in an onClick event handler. The event can be used to query event information.

Request Event Object

A Request Event is accessible in an onClick Handler script that is attached to a Form field element. The Request element contains the values submitted from a form. It is stored in the global 'event' object.

InetSoft Viewpoint

"You actually use more business intelligence capabilities. So in between the execution phase and the final evaluation, you’re constantly tracking and monitoring your performance so you can tune your execution. That’s where business intelligence with dashboards for analysis and monitoring come in. And in between the evaluation phase and incorporating your learnings or findings and adapting your strategy, you need to do some in-depth analytics.

That’s the more traditional forecasting or predictive analytics as well as things like data mining. So there is a piece that is more business intelligence as it relates to the management system, and then there is a piece that is more performance management, and you couple them together.

After some months of active use of the platform, go back to the users and find out where they get value out of the system, what they’ve been using it for, and start to use those thought leaders, the folks that have been the most aggressive users getting this value out of it. Use them, perhaps, as a way to add the additional performance management capabilities into the organization." - Mark Flaherty, CMO, InetSoft
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