Views and Dashboards
Details
The report
template contains views and dashboards. Views present collected information for
an object. Dashboards give a visual overview of the performance and state of
objects in your virtual infrastructure. You can combine different views and
dashboards and order them to suit your needs.
Where You Add Views
and Dashboards
To create report templates, from the left menu, click . The
Report Templates
tab is in the right
panel. From the Report Templates
tab, click
Add
. From the New Template
dialog
box, in the workspace, on the left, click Views and
Dashboards
. If you create a template, complete the required previous
steps of the workspace. How You Add Views and
Dashboards
To add a view or a dashboard
to your report template, select it from the list on the left pane and drag it
to the main panel. You can drag the views and dashboards in the main panel to
reorder them. You can select a portrait or landscape orientation for each view
or dashboard from the drop-down menu next to its title.
Option
| Description
|
|---|---|
Data type
| Select
Views or
Dashboards to
display a list of available views or dashboards that you can add to the
template.
|
Filter | Search for views or dashboards by name. To
see the complete list of views or dashboards, delete the search box contents
and press Enter.
|
List of views
| List of the views that you can add to the
template. This list is available when you select
Views from the
Data
type drop-down menu.
|
List of dashboards
| List of the dashboards that you can add to
the template. This list is available when you select
Dashboards from the
Data
type drop-down menu.
|
Preview of views and dashboards
| In the main panel, you
see a preview of the views and dashboards that you add.
When you create a
template in the context of an object from the environment, you see a live
preview of the views and dashboards.
|
Colorization
| You can activate or deactivate a colorized PDF output for each list view.
This option is available from the right panel when you select
Views from the Data
type drop-down menu. |