Charts and small crosstabs are best suited to dashboards. However, you can design table reports that work well in the dashboard. Such reports tend to be very narrow and are typically used with input controls to limit the number of rows they return.
Keep reports small because dashboards typically contain more than one. In particular, reports shouldn’t be too wide, as horizontal room is always at a premium in a dashboard. The server strips margins from an Ad Hoc report when displaying the report on a dashboard.
Input Control Tips
When designing input controls for a dashboard, keep these guidelines in mind:
• | To pass a value to an external URL, the URL Parameter Name you give to the input control must match the name of a parameter that the URL can accept. The value of the input control must also be a value the URL can accept. The target URL is likely to have additional requirements and limitations. For example, the name of the parameter may be case-sensitive; in this case, the value you enter in the URL Parameter Name field is also case-sensitive. |
The input control must pass data that the URL can accept. Otherwise, the server may be unable to retrieve the correct data from the external URL.
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