Page Gallery and Page Categories

Dashboard provides out-of-the-box pages and components. You can customize a Dashboard display by customizing these pages and components. You can also create your own pages and components and combine them to create a customized Dashboard. To help you manage pages you can use page categories.

You can generate the URL of a Dashboard page to embed the page into another application. You can then click somewhere in that page to navigate away from the application towards the Dashboard page in IT Business Analytics.

ClosedTo access:

In Dashboard, click Page Gallery.

ClosedModify Page Categories

Dashboard contains default categories within the Page Gallery to help you organize pages.

This section describes how to work with categories within the Page Gallery y to help you organize pages.

You can add categories, edit or delete user-defined categories, and add or remove pages from categories.

Note

Categories are not mutually exclusive; you can assign a page to more than one category.

ClosedCreate a New Page Category

Dashboard is provided with categories to which pages are assigned.

To add a new page category:

  1. Click the Page Gallery button on the Page Management toolbar, then click the New Category button (on the left section of the dialog box).
  2. In the New Category dialog box, enter the name of the new category.
  3. Click OK.

You can then assign existing pages to the category, or add new external components to the category.

ClosedRename a User-Defined Page Category

To rename a user-defined page category:

  1. Select the category and click the Edit Category Name button.
  2. In the Edit Category dialog box, change the name of the category.
  3. Click OK.

Note that default categories (marked with a icon) cannot be renamed.

ClosedDelete a User-Defined Page Category

To delete a user-defined page category, select the category and click the Delete Category button.

Note that default categories (marked with a icon) cannot be deleted.

ClosedAssign a Page to a Category

To assign a page to a category, right-click the page and select the Categorize (page or component) option. In the Categorize Page dialog box that opens, select one or more categories to which you want to assign the page or component, and click OK.

ClosedModify the Category Assignments of a Page

To change the category assignments of a page, right-click it and select the Categorize (page or component) option. In the Categorize Page dialog box that opens, modify the selection of categories, and click OK.

ClosedEmbed an ITBA Dashboard page in another application

You can generate the URL of a Dashboard page to embed the page into another application. You can then click somewhere in that page to open the Dashboard page in Business Analytics.

  1. In the Dashboard, click Page Gallery. Select a page and click Generate URL to generate the URL of the page. You can then use the URL to embed the page into another application.

    The following dialog box opens.

  2. You can then:

    • Click Copy URL to clipboard. You can then use the copied URL to embed the selected ITBA Dashboard page into another application.
    • Click the link in the dialog box to display the page and make sure it is the correct page.
  3. If you want to display the embedded page in one iframe in the other application, edit the file:
    $HPA_Home/admin/HPBA-10.10.00-SNAPSHOT-RC-001-master-ubuntu-x64/webserver/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, comment out the following line:
    # Header always append X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN, and save.

Movie: To display the movie, open the ITBA application, click Help in the top right corner of the application main page and select the Movies option. Select the relevant movie. For details, see Access Movies in the Online Help.

ClosedNavigate from a ITBA Dashboard page embedded into another application back to ITBA

You have embedded a ITBA Dashboard page in a non-ITBA application.

You can navigate from the ITBA Dashboard page embedded in the non-ITBA application back to ITBA, by clicking anywhere in that page.

The Dashboard page opens in Business Analytics, in context, in the ITBA application.

You get a log on confirmation. To prevent that you need to configure Single Sign On. For details, see LW-SSO .

Movie: To display the movie, open the ITBA application, click Help in the top right corner of the application main page and select the Movies option. Select the relevant movie. For details, see Access Movies in the Online Help.

ClosedPage Gallery Dialog Box