Dashboard Folder Object/Folder View

Temoryian

Good morning,

In OBI 12.2.1.4.0 I am creating a dashboard landing page.  There is a need to have the catalog structure for a department in the dashboard.  When editing the dashboard I can see the dashboard objects on the left side of the screen:

I bring in the Folder dashboard object and that allows me to show the folder structure at whatever folder I set it at.  However when I expand folders that contain dashboards, the dashboards are not visible and only analyses are shown.  The Folder Properties dialog box only allows me to select the desired folder, expand, and show RSS link.  Is there a trick to getting all items, including dashboards, to appear in the Folder view?

I haven't seen any other posts and this isn't menionted in any documentation that I have.  Thanks for your help.

[Deleted User]

Just out of curiosity:

What's wrong with the dashboard menu itself? It will show all dashboards for any given user based on his/her permissions.

Temoryian

Hi Christian,

Our organiziation was mimicing a previous folder structure from a previous product and made the decision to keep it to try and make things as familiar as possible for our end users.  I've found this on  https://gerardnico.com/dat/obiee/obips/dashboard:

"If you save the dashboard in the Dashboards subfolder directly under /Shared Folders/first level subfolder, then the dashboard will be listed in the Dashboard menu in the global header. If you save it in a Dashboards subfolder at any other level (such as /Shared Folders/Sales/Eastern), then it will not be listed."

Currently our dashboards are nested further down in their departments folders and subfolders.  This is an option but isn't ideal for us because we would have to move dashboards out of the folder structure that everyone is comfortable with.  We *might* help new users but confuse existing users.  This might be the solution but isn't ideal.

Any insight as to why dashboards appear to have been exluded from the folder dashboard object?  I also just tried to view agents nested in folders and they don't appear either.

Thank you.

[Deleted User]

It' how the product is designed and works. If you follow how another product worked...well you have be understand and accept certain downsides as you quite literally work against the product you bought and pay for.

I hope that you are aware that dashboards are just placeholders and buckets for references to the actual data-processing objects like analyses and prompts.

So to save a very nasty situation like that one you're in why don't you go try to use the tool at least a little bit as it's designed and put the dashboards in proper locations (first-level subfolders) and simply point to the objects they should display. Permission management will still make sure that people only see what they should and you would at least be a little bit closer to standard.

Long story short: You're paying for a fundamentally wrong decision and strategy. You'd also not replace a car with manual gearbox for one with an automatic gearbox but not use said gearbox and rather install some ropes which actuate a hammer in the engine compartment to hammer in the gear you want to use.