Sharing Dashboards, filtering records

[ssmith001]

Greetings, I have a few quick questions regarding Cognos Analytics 11.0.9:

1) when sharing a dashboard, is there a way to disallow a person's ability to edit the dashboard once the recipient has been sent the link?

2) Can dashboards be scheduled and sent using bursting? Basically, sending a user their "version" of the dashboard with their Region for example, already selected in the dashboard.

3) We have a bunch of load records in a database table, each with a scheduled ship date. When I drag this ship date into a dashboard, it presents me with every ship date for every record on this table. Is there a way to filter the dates with some sort of date range so I can only see data in the dashboard for the selected date range?

[MFGF]

Greetings, I have a few quick questions regarding Cognos Analytics 11.0.9:

1) when sharing a dashboard, is there a way to disallow a person's ability to edit the dashboard once the recipient has been sent the link?

2) Can dashboards be scheduled and sent using bursting? Basically, sending a user their "version" of the dashboard with their Region for example, already selected in the dashboard.

3) We have a bunch of load records in a database table, each with a scheduled ship date. When I drag this ship date into a dashboard, it presents me with every ship date for every record on this table. Is there a way to filter the dates with some sort of date range so I can only see data in the dashboard for the selected date range?

Hi,

From your questions above, it looks like you're using the wrong tool here. Dashboards are really designed for ad-hoc data discovery. I would be looking at using a report  (laid out like a dashboard) to deliver the capabilities you require here.

Cheers!

MF.

[ssmith001]

Thanks, that makes sense.

[Imre]

Hi,

From your questions above, it looks like you're using the wrong tool here. Dashboards are really designed for ad-hoc data discovery. I would be looking at using a report  (laid out like a dashboard) to deliver the capabilities you require here.

Cheers!

MF.

Dashboards seem much more dynamic than Active Reports. I am leaning towards building standard reports as Dashboard due to their "sexiness" and drill-down options within charts and tables. Similar may be possible with Active Reports but it seems to me that Dashboards just do it better. Maybe I lack the Active Report knowledge.