Chapter 5. Building the Dashboard Framework

Dashboards evolve over time and a standard development best practice is to construct dashboards with the ability for growth and modification without using repetitive code through the document. An effective method to streamline dashboard programming with areas for growth is to create and extract the standard code statements of the document into a customized Dashboard Framework within Interactive Reporting. While there are various approaches to constructing a Dashboard Framework, the strategy detailed within this chapter demonstrates one approach to achieve an optimal configuration. In addition to the information provided for building the Dashboard Framework, this chapter provides information on the options for managing document size, delivery, and document security.

This chapter covers the following concepts: