The content that appears on dashboards is targeted to the specific user and their business need. For this reason, dashboards consist of various components.
A component is a frame of content that appears in a certain location on a Radar dashboard. Different components give different dashboards their own appearance in addition to providing the tools and information users need to accomplish their workflows.
Dashboards are composed of records in two master files:
Dashboard (IDM): The dashboard record is where you construct the screen that pulls in information for a group of users. You also define who is allowed to access the dashboard.
Components (IDB): Component records are a unit of content within a dashboard.
There are several different types of components you can build for dashboards:
Link: Displays a set, static list of links to Hyperspace activities, reports, SlicerDicer sessions, networked folders and files, and URLs outside of Hyperspace.
Report Listing: Displays links to all of a user’s favorite reports, with the added ability to run and edit Reporting Workbench reports. Can also be configured to search the system for reports which have specified tags, creating a dynamic list of reports.
Message Board: Allows listed users to post messages to users’ dashboards
Graph: Displays a visual summary of data in the form of a bar graph, line graph, or pie graph. These components can use Reporting Workbench reports or code templates as a source.
Table: Displays a table of summary information from a Reporting Workbench report or a code template. The rows and cells in these components can change color as metrics pass pre-defined thresholds. It is possible to link to other activities from these components.
Native HTML: A component that uses a code template as a source. These are capable of displaying a variety of information for cases when the data does not conform exactly to the formats defined by the other component types. You are also able to use a Native HTML component to embed data (such as a website or document) directly within a user’s dashboard.
Epic also releases special components like In Basket Glance, Schedule Glance and Patient List Glance. These components show a quick summary of Epic activities within a dashboard.
Set the Dashboard Layout
The Content form controls the number and position of regions that organize the components in your dashboard. In this section, specify the width of each region, whether each region has a header and a background color, and whether the region header should display a name.
Choose the Content form.
If needed, expand the options for Layout Settings.
The Layout setting determines how you can arrange the components of the dashboard.
Choose a few different layouts to see how the preview changes.
When you are done exploring, choose the “Two Columns” layout.
Select the Group components checkbox.
This option allows you to put several components together into a single group with one name.
If you want each component to appear as its own box with its own name, you would leave this checkbox clear.
Add the following Region Names for two groups of components:
Line 1: Operational
Line 2: Analysis
Add Content to the Dashboard
The Components section of the Content form is where you specify the individual components that will comprise your dashboard, as well as the regions in which those components will appear.
Add the following Components to your dashboard:
MR Schedule Glance (33515)
WM Dashboard In Basket Glace (33510)
Set the Region to “Operational” for both components.
This region is coming from the groups you set up on the Layout form.
Radar is able to filter the data displayed to the user based on component parameters. If a dashboard includes components with parameters, those parameters are configured in the dashboard record’s Parameters section. If an administrator enables a parameter for interactive display, end users can select parameters to further personalize a component or dashboard.
Data source: Component Record
Setting the data source to component record means we will build the list of links right within the component record itself.
A link component creates a static list of links to reports, Hyperspace activities, websites, or network locations.
To make any changes to the list of links, they have to be manually updated within the record build.
One particularly useful feature of this Launch Activity is to click the header to launch another dashboard. In this situation, you additionally must specify which dashboard to open.
For example, if you wanted to open the Builder Tools Dashboard (ID 100021), you would enter this in the Launch Activity: WM_DASHBOARD_LAUNCHER,runparams:100021
For a Native HTML component with Embedded Content as its data source, use the Data Source form to specify where the content is stored.
The data for your component can come from any page that will return HTML.
Users do not automatically have access to all dashboards in the system. Instead
individual dashboards have their own security which must be configured before a user can access it.
There are several ways to allow access to a dashboard:
Through user types
Through report groups
Through individual user records or user templates
Through a dashboard redirector
Using Report groups are the current recommendation. Building a dashboard redirector allows you to set multiple favorite dashboards for a group of end users.
Report groups control the security of reporting content (dashboards, dashboard components, reports, SlicerDicer content). Groups are the security link between user records and reporting content.
Users will be able to access any reporting content that contains report groups that are assigned in their user record.
Dashboard are composed of—— .
A component that displays a static set of reports has a Display Format of………..
A component that dynamically distributes reports has a Display Format of ………. and a Data Source of……… .
component
links
Report listing
Report tags
……….can be used to make dashboards available to groups of users in the Analytics Catalog
Report Groups
Dashboards are composed of __________________.
A. Reports
B. Activities
C. Registries
D. Components
D
What must be selected in the dashboard record in order for a user to access a dashboard in hyperspace and search for a dashboard in the analytics catalog? ﴾Choose all that apply﴿
A. Ready for use
B. Enabled for hyperspace
C. Ready for hyperspace
D. Enabled for user selection
Answer: A and D
Which of the following can be included in a Link component?
A. Reports
B. Activities
C. URLs
D. All the above
D
What do the report groups listed in a component record control?
A. The reports that can be linked in the component.
B. The users that will be able to access the component from the analytics catalog.
C. The dashboards that can use the component.
D. All the above.
B
One of the most common ways to distribute a dashboard is to make it available to specific ………….
User Roles
Any user with a specified User Role will be granted access to the dashboard.
There are several ways to allow access to a dashboard:
1
2
3
4
Through user types
Through report groups
Through individual user records or user templates
Through a dashboard redirector
