Create Dashboard Report Additional Resources example
The Create Dashboard Report action’s Additional Resources parameter may be used add additional URL links to a Dashboard report. These may refer to HTML reports generated from each of the Dashboard report’s table datasets, or to other appropriate URLs.
To generate a Dashboard report that includes three charts and an ‘Additional Resources’ section, carry out the following steps.
- Populate three Table datasets named Table1, Table2 and Table3 with the data to be used for the Dashboard report.
- Use the Create HTML Report action to create an HTML report for each of the Table datasets. The Report URL datasets for the reports should be labeled Report URL1, Report URL2 and Report URL3.
- Add a Convert Data action to the workflow and set its Convert Type property to ‘StringsToTwoColumnTable’.
- Link the Report URL datasets to the action’s String1, String2 and String3 properties. Add an OutTable dataset and rename it to ‘Additional Resources’.
- Use the Create Dashboard Report action to generate a single Dashboard report that includes charts for the Table1, Table2 and Table3 datasets. Link the action’s Source1, Source 2, and Source3 properties to the Table1, Table2 and Table3 datasets. Link the action’s Additional Resources property to the Additional Resources dataset. The following example XML code may be used as the action’s Dashboard specification to create a report that includes three pie charts generated from the appropriate table data.
<REPORT>
<ROW>
<CELL Span="span2">
<OBJECT Param="Source1">
<GRAPHIC>
<CHART_TITLE>Chart 1</CHART_TITLE>
<TYPE>Pie</TYPE>
<IS3D>False</IS3D>
</GRAPHIC>
</OBJECT>
<OBJECT Param="Source2">
<GRAPHIC>
<CHART_TITLE>Chart 2</CHART_TITLE>
<TYPE>Pie</TYPE>
<IS3D>False</IS3D>
</GRAPHIC>
</OBJECT>
<OBJECT Param="Source3">
<GRAPHIC>
<CHART_TITLE>Chart 3</CHART_TITLE>
<TYPE>Pie</TYPE>
<IS3D>False</IS3D>
</GRAPHIC>
</OBJECT>
</CELL>
</ROW>
</REPORT>
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Run the workflow and examine the Dashboard report’s ‘Additional Resources’ section.