Comparing Dashboards 2.0 to original Dashboards

There are two ways to present Visualizer and Designer reports in dashboards:

Dashboards 2.0 provides a contemporary HTML-based alternative to the original Dashboards module. Built on leading technology and modern design principles, Dashboards 2.0 has a streamlined user experience.

Original Dashboards (1.0, Flash-based) is the original version of Dashboards.

Dashboards 2.0 does not support all features of the original version, and it supports additional features. These sections list the similarities and differences.

  • User Interface: The Dashboards 2.0 user interface is completely different.
  • Terminology: Terminology is slightly different:
    • Dashboards tabs are now collections. A collection is a set of dashboards. Dashboards have vertically scrollable pages, where you place dashlets.
    • Filters correspond to prompts.
    • Dashlets are the same concept, a single report container.
  • Similarities: These features exist in the original dashboard and in Dashboards 2.0:
    • Basic operations: Create, edit, copy, delete
    • Bookmarks
    • Multiple dashlets - report containers
    • Dashboard filters - prompts
    • Export options at the dashlet and report level
    • Designer reports: CSV, Excel, PDF, and PowerPoint in original Dashboards, Excel and PDF in Dashboards 2.0
    • Visualizer reports: Excel and PDF
    • Drill down, drill to dashboard or page at the dashlet and report level
    • Drag-select filtering on charts and tables, also known as Visual Filtering
    • Refresh
    • Bing maps from Designer reports
    • Creating and managing report schedules: Run, edit and delete
    • Search
    • View selectors for Designer reports
    • Parent/child prompts are parent/child filter groups in Dashboards 2.0
    • Column selectors for Designer and Visualizer reports
    • Private/public access settings for dashboards and dashboard collections
  • Enhancements: Dashboards 2.0 includes these enhancements over the original version:
    • Adaptive design supports tablet devices in addition to standard computer displays
    • Advanced drilling - drill across links to other dashboard pages
    • Auto-layout menu
    • Collections for grouping dashboards
    • Dashboards have scrollable pages
    • KPI widgets
    • Theme Editor
    • Search on the Report Catalog
    • Images
    • Text boxes
    • Buttons
    • Universal filters across the space
    • Embedded web pages
    • Visualizer Geomaps
    • Embedded HTML
    • Embedding API for JavaScript
  • Differences:
    • Dashboards 2.0 filters apply across the entire space. You can create one and use it across multiple dashboards. When you edit a filter, the changes apply to all instances of the filter on any dashboard in the space.
    • Dashboards 2.0 saves dashboards and dashboard collections to the shared directory in the report catalog.
    • Dashboards 2.0 automatically re-scales Visualizer chart reports when the size of the dashboard screen changes. Visualizer tabular reports show scroll bars.
  • Unsupported Features: These features are not supported in Dashboards 2.0:
    • Pivot control
    • Undo
    • Sticky notes
    • Radar charts
    • Flex grids
    • Chart animation
    • 3D rendering of 3D Designer charts
    • Tree prompts
    • Rectangle objects
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