Designing for dashboards and Homepages

Special consideration should be given to the design of Application Studio reports because they can be displayed for different purposes in different environments and on different devices and screens.

You can display Application Studio reports in widgets on dashboards, in Homepages, and in In-Context BI.

In dashboards, Application Studio reports can be displayed as widgets. Those widgets can be displayed singly, or be combined and connected so that a change in one widget updates others or the entire dashboard. Dashboards can also be viewed on Android and iOS platforms, on phones and tablets.

Home pages are a personalized space in which you use widgets to combine information from different sources. Widgets on home pages are not connected and do not share information as they do on dashboards.

Another difference between dashboard and home page widgets, which requires consideration during their design, is that a home page has a banner area and a body area. The banner area is intended to highlight particularly important information, such as breaking news. Thus, the widgets that you add to the banner area have special formatting. Also, widgets have titles which can be displayed or hidden. Typically, the titles are displayed in home pages but hidden on dashboards.

In In-Context BI, Application Studio reports show snippets of information alongside the main applications.

To create widgets that are consistent, reusable, and attractive in all circumstances requires a number of techniques and options that are discussed here.