Dashboards can display large amounts of information in a concise form, to give you a quick overview of its topics. For creating and displaying dashboards, SAP provides the Dashboard Builder in SAP Solution Manager.
The Dashboard Builder user interface comprises the following main parts:
Part | Description |
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Dashboard | One dashboard usually visualizes the values of one or more KPIs representing a topic; it consists of one or more different tiles, which typically display the values of one KPI. |
KPI Group | Tiles in a dashboard can be arranged into a KPI group. |
Tile | A tile is a part of a dashboard. It usually visualizes a KPI value, or highly aggregated information of this KPI, in one chart. |
Detail View | If you choose a tile, normally the detail view for this tile is displayed. It typically displays more detailed information about the KPI, e.g. the development of the KPI value over time. |
The Dashboard Builder supports the following use cases:
You can use various dashboards delivered by SAP as templates for your own tasks. They comprise several tiles which each output information, and process an aspect of the topic.
You can create your own dashboards, KPI groups and tiles, from data provisioning to visualization, on which the following documentation concentrates.
The Dashboard builder is a SAPUI5-based, coding-free and easy-to-use tool to enable SAP customers to quickly build a dashboard to visualize their data for analysis via configuration. Major features include:
Easy-to-use template-based tool
Modern and intuitive user interface
Connectability to multiple types of data sources including BW query, function module and Business Process Analytics
Can run on both desktop and mobile devices
The Dashboard Builder has the following prerequisites:
In a BW system, there is always a TCP/IP connection MDX PARSER
. In the BW system of your SAP Solution Manager System, check in transaction SM59 that the destination is configured, and the Connection Test
succeeds.
The BW info provider 0SM_DSHVP
and the query 0SM_DSH_GNRC
are active. This is part of the standard configuration of the SAP Solution Manager (transaction SOLMAN_SETUP).
BW queries and function modules which provide data to the Dashboard Builder are ready.
You have execute and display authorization for the BW queries or function modules to be used in your dashboards.
To create and maintain dashboards, you need the following roles:
SAP_SM_DSH_CONF
in the SAP Solution Manager system
SAP_SM_BI_DSH_CONF
in the BW system
To display dashboards, you need the following roles:
SAP_SM_DSH_DISP
in the SAP Solution Manager system
SAP_SM_BI_DSH_DSP
in the BW system
Start the Dashboard Builder in the SAP Solution Manager Launchpad. The tile for the Dashboard Builder is not in the home page by default; to add it, proceed as follows:
Choose the button Personalize Home Page
.
Add a new tile in the group SAP Solution Manager: Configuration
by choosing the "+" button. The Tile Catalog
is displayed.
Navigate to the group SAP Solution Manager: Configuration
, and for the tile Configuration: Analytics and Dashboards
, choose the button Add tile to groups
.
The tile Configuration: Analytics and Dashboards
is now in the SAP Solution Manager Launchpad
. You can now start the Dashboard Builder by choosing the tile.
After starting the Dashboard Builder from the SAP Solution Manager Launchpad
, the configuration mode is displayed. The screen consists of two parts:
On the left-hand side of the screen, a navigation panel containing all dashboards grouped by categories (for information how to maintain the categories available, see Maintaining Dashboard Categories) is displayed.
The buttons below the navigation panel provide functions on dashboard level:
Pushbutton | Description |
---|---|
| Create your own dashboard; for more information see Creating a Dashboard. |
| To edit an existing dashboard, select it in the navigation panel, and choose |
| To copy an existing dashboard into a new one, choose |
| To delete an existing dashboard, select it in the navigation panel, and choose |
On the main part of the screen, the tiles of the active dashboard are displayed. To add a new tile to the dashboard, choose the Add New Tile
button. For more information, see Creating a Tile.
Note
When creating a tile, you define the data supply of the tile as well. For more information about creating a function module as a data source, see Using a Function Module as Data Source.
Depending on the implementation, every tile can have a detail view, which is displayed when you choose the tile. For more information about creating it, see Creating a Drill-Down View.
In the view mode, only one dashboard is displayed in one browser window, in which you cannot change any configuration settings or switch to another dashboard. To open a dashboard in view mode, choose the view mode
button at the upper right corner of the screen. For more information, see Viewing a Dashboard.
SAP delivers dashboards for the following topics:
Dashboard Builder – Application Operation Dashboards
These dashboards show the availability and performance of your managed systems.