Using Dashboards

The Dashboard feature enables you to view all the integrated dashboards.

    Navigation and Role privileges

    Navigation

    Left pane > Dashboards

    Role privileges
    Sub-feature Admin Basic Catalog Manager Category Manager Content Editor Digital Asset Manager Full Admin GDS Supply Editor Merchandise Manager Service Account Solution Developer Vendor
    Audit history ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
    DAM summary ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
    Data sanity ✓ ✓ ✓
    Jobs summary ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
    User summary ✓ ✓ ✓
    Vendor summary ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
    Worklist summary ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Depending upon your privileges, you can access various reporting dashboards in the Product Master. The dashboard is designed to visualize key metrics for each persona. From the summary level dashboards (main level), you can drill down to the detailed level dashboards or to go into next level details for easy data analysis.

Types of dashboards

Following are the various types of dashboards available:
  • Audit history dashboard
  • DAM summary dashboard
  • Data sanity dashboard
  • Job summary dashboard
  • User summary dashboard
  • Vendor manager dashboard
  • Worklist summary dashboard

Specific tasks

On individual dashboards, when applicable, click, and perform the following tasks.

Open
Click to open the item in the single-edit page. For a category, the page also supports state maintenance.
Refresh
 Category  Click to refresh the page.
Save as list
Click to open Save as List pop-up window. Enter an appropriate name in the List name field, and click Apply.
Generate report
Click to open Generate report pop-up window. Select the relevant script from the Select script list, and click Apply. A Microsoft Excel file format report of the items gets downloaded to your computer.
Checkout
 Category  Click Checkout > <collaboration area> to check out the selected item or category from the specified collaboration area. The single-edit page opens to display the item or category details in an editable mode.
Important: You must select Checkout and Edit checkbox while you are creating a collaboration area to enable the Checkout functionality.
Actions
Click to see entry preview scripts.
Import
Click to import a Microsoft Excel file format report of the items from your computer.
Export
Click to download a Microsoft Excel file format report of the items to your computer.

Updates to the mdmce-roles.json file

The Dashboards module format is updated in the mdmce-roles.json file with new additions and modifications to the existing dashboard structure.

Example

Existing Audit History dashboard New Data Model summary dashboard 
{
       "name": "Dashboards",
       	"index": "6",
	"sequentialMenu": [
	{
	"name": "Audit History",
	"properties": { 
	"url": "", 
	"userid": "",
	"dashboardId": ""
"name": "Data Model summary",
      "properties": {
      "url": "/dashboards/jsp/index.jsp?
dashboardName=Data_Model_Summary&previewMode=true", 
            			"userid": "Full Admin",
            			"dashboardId": "1001"
            			} 
          		}        
        	]
      	}

{
        "name": "Dashboards",
        "index": "6",
“sequentialMenu": [
		  {                                       
			"name": "Audit History"
          },
          {
			"name": "DAM summary"
          },	  
		  {
			"name": "User summary"
          },	  
		  {
			"name": "Worklist summary"
          }
       	] 
       }