Dashboards

A full discussion of Dashboards is outside the scope of this tutorial. But it is important to know about them and the things you will need to consider when designing reports for dashboards.

Infor BI Dashboards is a mobile app in which you create dashboards containing multiple reports and Web content. Dashboard content is contained in widgets which you can resize and reposition on-screen. Similarly, Infor BI Dashboards enables you to create and view Web-based dashboards. Infor BI Dashboards and Infor BI Dashboards are cross-platform applications. That is, changes you make to a dashboard in one application are reflected in the other.

Application Studio has features to specify report sizes and to enable columns and rows to shrink and grow within specified limits. These, in combination with other features in Infor BI Dashboards and Infor BI Dashboards, help to ensure that dashboards remain usable and attractive on different screen sizes and resolutions, or if you decide to rearrange your content.

Auto-sizing is enabled by default in dashboards. But, to take advantage of auto-sizing, you need to create reports which can shrink and grow. To ensure that reports remain usable, they should not be allowed to shrink too much.

A report can be resized if shrinkage or growth is specified on a single column or row. But you can allow shrinkage and growth on multiple columns and rows as required. For example, you might enable growth and shrinkage only on the columns and rows containing a chart.

Which columns and rows you allow to grow and shrink, and by how much, depends on their content, and on testing the reports in a variety of screen sizes. The minimum width of a column should be wide enough to display its content in full.