Page Gallery and 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

User interface elements are described below (when relevant, unlabeled elements are shown in angle brackets):

UI Element	Description
Categories (left side)
	New Category. Click to create a new category; you can then assign pages to this category. For details see Component Gallery and Component Categories.
	Edit Category Name. Select a user-defined category and click to rename (default categories cannot be renamed).
	Delete Category. Select a user-defined category and click to delete (default categories cannot be deleted).
Categories	This contains a list of categories to which pages are assigned. A category can have the following indications after its name: A number following the category name shows how many pages are in the category. indicates that the category is a default category, and cannot be renamed or deleted. indicates that this category groups all the pages that are not assigned to a category. You can use the toolbar to manage a category, or select a category to display its pages on the right side of the dialog box. Categories are not mutually exclusive; you can assign a page to more than one category.
Pages (right side)
	Open Page. Select a page and click to open it in the Dashboard workspace. You can also double-click a page within the Page Gallery .
	Categorize Page. Select a page and click to assign it to a category.
	Clone Page. Select a page and click to create a copy of the page. You can then make changes to the page and save it with a new name. A dialog box enables you to name the new page, give the page a description, and select a category for the page. The description appears as a tooltip for the page within the Page Gallery.
	Delete Page. Select a page and click to delete it from the gallery.
	Generate URL. Select a page and click to generate the URL of the page. The URL can then be used to embed the page into another application. For details, see Embed an ITBA Dashboard page in another application. The following dialog box opens. 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. In the other application, click anywhere in the embedded Dashboard page to open the same Dashboard page, in context, in ITBA (with a logon confirmation if you had left the session).
Pages	This shows the default pages available for display in Dashboard, as well as custom pages that you have saved. You can select a page and use the toolbar to edit page definitions, or double-click a page to open it in the Dashboard workspace. ITBA provides out-of-the-box pages that you can display immediately in the Dashboard. For details about the out-of-the-box pages, see Out-of-the-box Dashboard Pages Reference.
Search box	Enter a text string to search for a specific page.