Oracle Fusion Technical: Reports, Data, Integrations and Extensions · Module 5 · OTBI and subject areas
Dashboards and prompts
Lesson 49 of 177 · 2 min
A dashboard is something somebody opens every morning, and that is a higher bar than an analysis that is correct. Assemble rather than accumulate. Three or four analyses answering one person's questions beats twelve answering everybody's: a page with twelve panels is a page nobody reads, and it is slower to load by exactly the amount nobody wanted. PROMPTS ARE WHERE DASHBOARDS GO WRONG. A dashboard prompt filters several analyses at once, and it only works if every analysis on the page understands the same filter. An analysis whose subject area does not contain the prompted dimension IGNORES the prompt silently — so a reader sets the period to March and one panel obediently keeps showing the year, with no indication that it did not listen. That is the contradiction to hunt for before publishing. Test every prompt against every panel. Set an unusual value, and confirm each panel's numbers…
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In this module: Module 5 · OTBI and subject areas
- 1What a subject area is
- 2Finding the right subject area
- 3Building an analysis
- 4Joins across subject areas, and when you cannot
- 5Calculations, bins and hierarchies
- 6Dashboards and prompts
- 7Security in OTBI: it is already applied
- 8Real-time versus reported figures
- 9Performance and the analysis nobody can run
- 10When OTBI is the wrong answer
- 11Lab briefing · An analysis and a dashboard