Tutorial: Administering dashboards

A dashboard is a portal page that displays your business performance data. It is composed of portlets (views) that act as small monitors of different types and display the performance data in different layouts.
In this tutorial, you will create a simple dashboard, learn how to add views to it, and then assign access to views and dashboards. After completing this tutorial, you will be able to:
  • Use WebSphere® Portal to build a dashboard
  • Create a label
  • Create a page
  • Copy and use concrete portlets (dashboard views)
  • Add a view to a dashboard
  • Assign access to a view
  • Assign access to a dashboard
For this tutorial, ensure that you have an Administrator user ID and a password to WebSphere Portal. The tutorial should take you no longer than 45 minutes to complete. You must complete the exercises in order, starting with Copying portlets. As you work on the exercises, you can experiment by adding different views to the dashboard. The goal is to familiarize yourself with the various views and to become comfortable with creating your own dashboard.

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