As we said in the introduction of this chapter, a dashboard contains an aggregation of multiple BI content (not necessarily just charts) in one single place. This recipe will show how we can aggregate multiple content on one single dashboard. Remember that this recipe makes use of Pentaho Dashboard Designer, a tool available only in the EE version of Pentaho.
The following steps detail how to build a dashboard to aggregate multiple content sources from our BA system:
Start a new dashboard from scratch by either clicking on the Create New button in the Home perspective and then clicking on Dashboard, or by navigating to File | New | Dashboard from the PUC menu.
The dashboard editor canvas will open. Choose the layout template of our dashboard by selecting the Template tab from the tabbed view and then clicking on 1 over 2. This template lets us insert three pieces of content in our dashboard: one in the upper zone and the remaining two in the...