Dashboard Objects and Catalog

Over on the left side of the dashboard editor, you’ll see the “Dashboard Objects” and “Catalog” sections.

Dashboard objects are all of the things that you can put on your dashboard:

·Column – Defines columns within your dashboard page;

·Section – Defines a specific area on a dashboard page;

·Alert Section – Adds a section that displays alerts from software agents;

·Action Link – Runs an associated action, which can do things like allow enhanced navigation or start external processes;

·Action Link Menu – Adds a menu of action links from which the user can select;

·Link or Image – Adds text or image web links to a page;

·Embedded Content – Lets you display another web page inside your dashboard page;

·Text – Static text, HTML, or a mix of the two;

·Folder – Adds a folder in the OBIEE presentation catalog into your dashboard page, so that users could directly access saved queries, for instance;

The “Catalog” section gives you access to other saved dashboards (actually, the sections and contents of those dashboards), as well as all of the queries saved in your personal and the shared folders.  You can drag any of these onto your dashboard page.