Perspective

A perspective is a specific view within the product.

For example, when you are creating a dashboard object, you are in the dashboard perspective.

All of the sample extensions contain a perspective element in their spec.json file. The value of the perspective element indicates which views will use this extension. A value of common means that the extension is used for all views.

The current perspective is found in the URL in your browser:

http://myserver:9300/bi/?perspective=dashboard&id=iC2094F0D0...

• Home: occurs when viewing the Welcome page, defined as http://servername:9300/bi/?perspective=home
  Important: When you set "perspective":"Home" in an extension, your custom buttons appear in the Welcome page at http://servername:9300/bi/?perspective=home. However, if you also set a different Cognos Analytics page as your Home page (by clicking Personal menu icon > Profile and settings > Settings), your customizations won't appear when you log in to Cognos Analytics. In this case, you must use a different perspective in your extension.
• Content: occurs when viewing the Content page (e.g., navigating My Content, Team Content, or Samples)
• Dashboard: occurs when viewing or editing a dashboard.
• Authoring: occurs when viewing or editing a report.
• Story: occurs when viewing or editing a story.
• Explore: occurs when viewing/editing an exploration.
• Ca-modeller : occurs when viewing/editing a data module.
• CreateBoard : occurs on the first screen of dashboard creation, when choosing a template