Overview

A dashboard is a container that has a collection of one or more indicators, and labels and images that enhance the dashboard. Dashboards can display critical information in a way that can be interpreted and monitored at a glance. A dashboard can also contain links to additional types of information, including Web pages, reports, and other dashboards. A dashboard can be displayed in the dashboard viewer or in a portlet on a portal page within the SAS Information Delivery Portal.
When you create a dashboard, you can lay out dashboard content in the following ways:
  • manually. You can specify each aspect of the layout by making changes to the indicator and dashboard property settings.
  • by using a template. You can use a layout template to quickly and easily layout the content of your dashboard. The template dynamically flows the indicator layout to the size of the dashboard.For more information, see Using a Template to Lay Out Dashboard Content.