InetSoft Product Information: Supply Chain Management Dashboard

More than ever, large organizations need to be aware of all the elements within their increasingly complex supply chains. InetSoft's BI dashboard application makes this task far more manageable than ever before by consolidating information from disparate sources and maximizing self-service analytic capabilities. View the example below to learn how you can benefit from our BI Solutions.

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Hyperlinks can be added to Data View component and Output components. (Data View components include Tables, Crosstab Tables, Charts, and Maps. Output components include Text, Image, Gauge, Thermometer, Sliding Scale, and Cylinder.)

Hyperlinks can target reports, Viewsheets, or web pages. When parameters are associated with a hyperlink, the parameter values are automatically passed to the targeted report, Viewsheet, or web page. Parameters can represent any of the attributes (columns) bound to the table, chart, or map.

The ‘OrderList’ report is designed to accept five parameters, one of those being ‘customer,’ which represents the company name of the customer. We will configure the hyperlinks that we add to the ‘Customer’ > ‘Company’ attribute in the Viewsheet to pass the company name into the ‘OrderList’ report’s ‘customer’ parameter.

1. In the Visual Composer, create a new Worksheet. (See the Data Worksheet Guide for information on creating a Worksheet.)
2. From the ‘Order Model’ data source, drag the ‘Customer’ table onto the Worksheet.
3. Save the Worksheet as ‘HyperlinkExample’.
4. Create a new Viewsheet in Visual Composer using the saved ‘HyperlinkExample’ Worksheet. (See the Quick Start: Creating a Viewsheet section for information on creating a Viewsheet.)
5. From the ‘HyperlinkExample’ Worksheet listed in the ‘Component’ pane of ‘Visual Composer’, drag the ‘Customer’ table onto the Viewsheet.
6. Save the new Viewsheet as ‘HyperlinkExampleView’. We now want to add hyperlinks to the names in the ‘Company’ column. These hyperlinks will pass the company name as parameter to the ‘OrderList’ report.
7. Right-click any cell in the ‘Company’ column, and select the ‘Hyperlink’ option.
8. This opens the ‘Hyperlink’ dialog box for the ‘Company’ column.
9. In the ‘Hyperlink’ dialog box, click the ‘Asset Link’ radio button.
10. Select ‘OrderList’ from the ‘Link’ popup menu.
11. Optional: Enter a tooltip in the ‘Tool Tip’ field. (In the example we use “View company information” as the tooltip.) The tooltip is displayed when the end-user hovers the mouse over a hyperlink. If there are multiple hyperlinks for a given attribute (which may be due to auto-drills added at the model level or query level), the tooltip is displayed when the end-user hovers the mouse over the name of the hyperlink in the menu of hyperlink options.
12. Deselect the ‘Self ’ option, and enter the name “ReportFrame” in the ‘Target Frame’ field. This will cause the hyperlinked report to open in a window called “ReportFrame” (i.e., this is the browser DOM ‘name’ attribute). If you want the report to open in the original Viewsheet frame, replacing the Viewsheet, you can leave the ‘Self’ checkbox selected.
13. Select the ‘Company’ field from the ‘Value’ pane of the ‘Hyperlink’ dialog box, and click the ‘Add’ button to open the ‘Parameter Name’ dialog box.
14. Enter ‘customer’ in the ‘Name’ field of the ‘Parameter Name’ dialog box, and click ‘OK’.
15. Click ‘OK’ to complete the hyperlink configuration.

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