Dashboard (Desktop)

Dashboard is your portal into DPS business development and project information that you rely on most.

Information from different areas of DPS that is important to you is combined on a page (a dashboard) for easy viewing.

This topic covers the dashboard that you access in the desktop application by clicking the Dashboard icon in the toolbar on the main DPS screen. This dashboard allows you to set up and view your own dashboards and dashparts.

Dashboard content is divided into individual dashparts, or blocks. Dashparts provide access to specific records, reports, applications, and web links. You can set up a dashboard to display only those dashparts used in your role and arrange them on the screen in any way that you like. You can also limit the number of records that you want to display for any dashpart in Settings > General > General System.

Because Dashboard content is delivered based on role-based security, administrators can easily manage the content for individuals or groups of users.

Note: You can also access Dashboard by clicking My Stuff > Dashboard in the Navigation pane in either the browser or desktop application. However, the Dashboard in My Stuff is a different version of the dashboard with some different functionality. Dashboards and dashparts in My Stuff are set up by a system administrator in Settings > Dashboard Designer, and then viewed by users in My Stuff > Dashboards. These two versions of Dashboard function separately and independently. Dashparts, dashboards, system dashparts, and web dashparts that you create in one version are not available for dashboards in the other version. Options for creating dashboards and dashparts are also different in each Dashboard version. To access the help for dashboards that you create in Dashboard Designer (in Settings) and that users view in My Stuff, see Dashboard Designer and Dashboard.