Analytics: Application Developer (Siebel 7.

7)

Module 8: Configuring
Intelligence Dashboards
Module Objectives

 After completing this module you will be able to:

 Describe the difference between included and embedded
content
 Identify scenarios where embedded content is not
appropriate
 Construct Intelligence Dashboards with both included and
embedded content

 Why you need to know:

 Content other than analytics requests can be added to
Dashboards

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Types of Intelligence Dashboard Content
 There are two types of Dashboard Content:
 Included
 Links to content
 Images
 Embedded
 Content that is displayed in a frame in the Dashboard
 Analytics Request is one kind of Embedded Content

 Drag a content object onto a section and click that object’s

Properties button to format

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Types of Intelligence Dashboard Content

Links & Images

Embedded Content

HTML Object

Folders

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Links & Images

 Takes user to the content by clicking a link or image rather than
displaying content inside frame
 Provides “lists” of choices
 Used for content that cannot be displayed in a frame
 Example: Some Web sites disallow content to show in a frame

Link text

Path to content

Path to image
file

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Links & Images Continued

 Link appears on Dashboard page

Link text
Graphic file

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Embedded Content
 Can be any file reached by a URL
 Default frame size is 600 x 400 pixels
 Dashboard will allocate frame size based on what is in the
dialog box, not on the content’s dimensions
 Dashboard will add scroll bars to the frame if the content is
larger than the allocated frame size

Path to content

Leave blank for default

frame size

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HTML Object
 Can contain formatted text using tags, ActiveX controls or Java
scripts, sound bites, animation, and so on
 Can contain anything that is supported by your browser

Click Preview to
view the results

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HTML Object Continued

 ActiveX objects must be self contained and supported by your
browser.
 Paste or type the object into the HTML text window, making sure to include the
beginning and ending tags <object...> and </object>
 JavaScript or VBscript objects must be self contained and supported
by your browser
 Paste or type the script into the HTML text window, making sure to include the
beginning and ending tags <script> and </script>
 JavaScript or VBscript objects must specify the script language in the
opening <script> tag, either <script language="javascript"> or <script
language ="vbscript">
 Audio clips must be located on a network drive accessible to all users
 Use the HTML tag <embed> to add audio in your Dashboard, in the format:

<embed src="audio" autostart="true" loop="true" hidden="true"> </embed>

where "audio" is the location and name of the audio clip

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Folders
 Views of a Web Catalog folder and its contents, such as saved
requests
 For example, if you have a collection of saved requests that you
run frequently, you can open the folder in the Dashboard, navigate
to a saved request, and click it to run it

Select Expand
in order to
display the
contents of the
folder as well as
the folder itself

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Folders Continued
 Folders are represented graphically

Click a folder to
expand the
contents

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Summary

 This module showed you how to:

 Describe the difference between included and embedded
content
 Identify scenarios where embedded content is not
appropriate
 Construct Intelligence Dashboards with both included and
embedded content

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Lab
 In the lab you will:
 Add both included and embedded content to a Dashboard.

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