Adding new menu item to Home menu

If you create a new dashboard and want to attach it to the default Home menu, use these steps. Home menu is the alias name.

About this task

After you create the dashboard with all its components, you must add it to a menu and publish it to be able to view it on Engine user interface with in the existing navigation.
CAUTION:
If you create a new menu with your custom dashboards and publish it, it replaces the default Home menu.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the Dashboard Designer.
  2. In the navigation pane of Dashboard Designer, click Menu Access.

    You can see the default Home menu.

  3. Click Home and wait for the menu to load.
  4. Right-click on the last category node, and select Add Sibling to add new category node.
  5. Right-click the new category node, and select Add Child, and enter a name for the dashboard node.
  6. To add Engine User Groups and a dashboard to a dashboard node, complete the following steps:
    1. In the Dashboards tab on the right, expand the dashboard categories, and drag the dashboard that you want to add to the dashboard node.
      Note: The Dashboards tab displays only those dashboards that are in complete state. You can add only one dashboard per dashboard node.

      The dashboard is added to the dashboard node, and the color of the dashboard dashboard icon on the dashboard node changes to blue.

    2. To add Engine User Groups, in the User Groups tab on the right drag a user group that you want to add to a dashboard node.
      Currently, for default Home menu, you can use npiadmin alone as the user group.
  7. Click Save.
  8. Click Publish and select Publish Menu and Dashboards

What to do next

After you publish a menu, you must log in to Engine and view the published dashboards. See, Getting started with the Dashboard Designer.