How to design and develop an interactive Cockpit or Dashboard in SpagoBI?

Dashboard is a one page visualization of business performance data which keeps senior managers in-line and proactive. This helps in taking better business decisions and planning future business needs. The key here is to present business performance data efficiently so that it can benefit business owners and help them analyze different aspects of their business.

To design and develop interactive cockpit in SpagoBI, we would need the following:

1. A document of Type “Document Composite” and Engine “Document Composition Engine”.Notes: Make sure the engine has been configured in “Resources->Engines Management page. It can be configured while installing SpagoBI 3.4 (latest version) from windows installer.
2. The XML file to design/develop the view and navigation of our cockpit. This is an xml template that we can write only by hand now but in future it will be written by wizard.

Interactive Cockpit Template Detail

This tag defines a template that will be used for rendering documents. It’s a standard template and must not be changed.

This tag defines the size of the video/view, we can have size in percentage mode as well (the alternative is pixel). When not defined the default values are 1024 x 768.

There is a block for every document that we would like to view/present in our cockpit/dashboard. We can add as many document tags as we need depending upon our views requirements. There is no limit and so we can create a composite document with 2,3,4,6, … sub-documents and everyone can shows different layout. The only limit is our common sense, because see too many documents can create confusion rather than help the data analysis.

sbi_obj_label defiines the label  by which the document is saved into SapgoBI.