Sharing Canvases Across Workbooks

Daniel Ryan

Currently, workbooks are built in isolation. This means that when there are commonalities between persona requirements, developers often have to maintain multiple versions the same workbook or canvas. For example, both a management accountant and budget holder might want to see an actual vs budget canvas but only the management accountant might want to see other canvases on subledger transactions. This would result in two workbooks with an identical AvB canvas and different backing canvases.

In OBIEE, as Reports were separate artefacts, they could be added to multiple dashboards and changing the report would change all dashboards that use that report. I would like it to be possible to have a canvas saved as an artefact that can be re-used across multiple workbooks in the same way. I wouldn't expect each visualisation to be saved separately so it would work more like a dashboard page.

This would have significant savings in both development and maintenance times and ensure that parity remains across users where needed.

Branden Pavol

I agree. There's currently no "dashboard" option for DV. Ideally, you could make one DV workbook called actual vs budget and save that as an object. Then you would have the ability to create a DV dashboard that allows you to put multiple DV workbooks on it. This would actually help with performance concerns because the more you treat a DV workbook as a dashboard, you're add more and more datasets to it. That really starts to degrade the query performance. I have some DV workbooks that have up to 10 different subject areas and datasets in it. That becomes a major performance hit.

Bhaskar Konar

Definitely a great feature. Upvoted.