Now we're going to learn how to add objects into the dashboards. There are two types of objects that we can publish in the dashboards:
Dashboard objects
Catalog objects
Dashboard objects are used to publish additional information or actions in the dashboards. For example, if end users want to navigate to the company portal frequently, you can publish the company's web address in the dashboard. Or if an integration is needed between OBIEE and a third party application, we can create action links that will call a web service.
Catalog objects are the objects that are created by the BI developers, such as analyses and KPIs.
Navigate to the Dashboard Builder page and you will see that there's no content in the
Regional Sales
dashboard page.Drag-and-drop one of the analyses from the Catalog pane to the dashboard content area. When you drop it, you'll see that two dashboard objects are automatically created. The Column and Section objects are...