Creating a Dashboard
This section describes the creation of a simple dashboard.
![note-icon-ns_28x28.png.04ec49d20dbcb73bbcc8bfddbc71336f.png](https://community.jaspersoft.com/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png) | To add a report or Ad Hoc view to a dashboard, you must have permission to view those elements. |
To create a simple dashboard:
| 1. | Click Create > Dashboard. The Dashboard Designer appears, displaying the list of available content and the canvas. |
| 2. | In the Existing Content section of the Available Content panel, find report 16. Interactive Sales Report. |
| 3. | Click and drag the report onto the Dashboard Canvas. |
![js-Dashboard-AddReport_600x372.png.43d08609969b9623081e09ff590023ee.png](https://community.jaspersoft.com/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png) |
Dragging report onto Dashboard Canvas |
| 4. | In Available Content, find 04. Product Results by Store Type Report. |
| 5. | Click and drag the report onto the canvas, until the left half of the Interactive Sales Report turns orange. |
The Product Results by Store Type Report appears on the canvas, next to the Interactive Sales Report. Both report dashlets are sized to fit side-by-side on the canvas.
| 6. | Right-click the Product Results by Store Type Report and click Properties. |
| 7. | Use the Scale to Fit dropdown to select Dashlet. |
| 8. | Click OK. The resized Product Results by Store Type Report now displays the entire crosstab in the dashlet. |
| 9. | Click and drag the report 05. Accounts Report onto the canvas, until the lower half of the Interactive Sales Report turns orange. |
The Accounts Report is placed under the Interactive Sales Report, and both dashlets are resized to fit on the right half of the canvas.
| 10. | In the Dashboard Designer toolbar, click ![js-Dashboard-icon-Properties.png.bdde2894df59129658c2eeb420508666.png](https://community.jaspersoft.com/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png) |
| 11. | Deselect Show dashlet borders and click OK. |
In “Simple Dashboard Canvas with three reports” you can see how the dashboard canvas looks at this point.
![js-Dashboard-Example-ThreeReportCanvas_600x377.png.4e5bfdb7887ad15bd41811a7f3753dca.png](https://community.jaspersoft.com/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png) |
Simple Dashboard Canvas with three reports |
| 12. | Click ![js-Dashboard-icon-Preview.png.9613800d68b5bc598f8507ea7f38559f.png](https://community.jaspersoft.com/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png) |
The end user view of the dashboard appears.
| 13. | Click ![js-Dashboard-icon-PreviewSelected.png.eb3dd17ac78aac5e570257c1048d1e66.png](https://community.jaspersoft.com/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png) |
| 14. | Click ![js-Dashboard-icon-Save.png.630e1ddb107de92819bae8c4e25993f9.png](https://community.jaspersoft.com/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png) |
| 15. | In the Save As window, change the default name, New Dashboard to Sales Dashboard and locate a folder, such as the /Dashboards folder. |
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