Using the Reports Dashboard Pane

Dashboard offers a Reports pane that you can add to a customized Dashboard Home page, giving you another source of reviewing generated reports and launching the Reports Manager product. Up to 45 days of report history display on the Dashboard Reports pane.

You can do the following from the Reports pane:

• Open Reports Manager.
• View the dates and times of recently generated reports.
• Link to previously generated reports.
• Search for items in the Reports grid.
• Change column sorting and column order.

If you have not added the Reports pane to a page on the Home window, do the following:

1. Click Customize on the Dashboard navigation panel.
2. Select the Home page number to add the Reports pane to.
3. Select Reports from the list of available panes.

Note: If Reports is not listed, it is already added to one of your Home pages.

4. Click one of the Save buttons or Cancel.

Button	Description
Save	Saves the changes and the window stays open for editing.
Save & Close	Saves the changes and exits the window.
Cancel	Exits the window without saving your changes.

Explain the components of the pane.

Component	Description
Report Name	Displays the report names.
Source	Lists the locations of exported, printed, or previewed reports in the Reports Manager navigation panel. Click a source link to open the group associated with a report in Reports Manager. You can then select the report from the Reports Manager grid.
Generated	Displays the dates and times reports were last run.
Destination	Lists the locations of exported reports. Click a destination link to open a report in the default viewer for that file type (for example: PDF or XLS).
Grid functions	Provides the following functions: Right-click column header. Group columns, select columns, sort, print, and export. Right-click grid row. Sort, find grid value, and reset default view. Right-click pane title bar. Manipulate pane properties, such as window position, refresh, and send to Desktop. Drag column header. Reposition column order. Grouping, sorting, column width, and column order are retained after closing and reopening Dashboard.