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5.15 Hide Dashboard
If a user has ‘View’ or ‘Save’ access to a Category, all dashboards will be displayed when
viewing the category drop-down list during the open command. However, hiding a
dashboard within a category is especially beneficial when drilling down into a dashboard.
Hiding the target dashboard will keep users from opening the dashboard natively.
To hide a dashboard, first open the dashboard. Then, right-click within the Category header
bar and select the ‘Extended Dashboard Properties…’ option from the right-click menu.
Next, place a checkbox in the setting ‘Hide in Dashboard Lists’ (see Figure 5-33).
Note: Dashboards can be hidden by the administrator, using the Administrative Application.
Figure 5-33
5.16 Refresh an Open Dashboard
Refreshing a dashboard will force each chart to re-query the data source; to display the
most current information since the dashboard was last opened. There is no need to close
the browser or log out of the current session. Nor does the dashboard need to close and
reopen. Refreshing the web browser or selecting F5 will log the user out of the current
session.
5.16.1 Manual Refresh Dashboard
If you opened a dashboard some time back and would like to make sure that it displays the
latest data from its data sources, simply click on the refresh icon on the bottom right corner
of the open dashboard (see Figure 5-34). By clicking the refresh button, only the currently
displayed dashboard will refresh. All other open dashboards will not refresh.
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