Dashboard Planning Considerations

You can add panes to display portlets for access to other features that you use less frequently, or that fall into another category of tasks.

As you plan your dashboard display, think about the information you most frequently view and monitor, and consider using the flexibility of the dashboard design to put that information in your own customized home pane for quick reference.

For example, you need only system monitoring data on your home pane, but want additional tools at your disposal in a separate pane for working with trading partners.

Portlets Are Only Useful with Related Data

Many portlets display system activity, such as documents processed, system event and log file contents. Others detail statistics such as database usage. Remember that portlets cannot display information unless it exists in Sterling B2B Integrator. For example, the EDI Documents Processed in Timeseries portlet cannot display data unless EDI documents are processing or have processed. For details about the various portlets available, see Dashboard Portlets.