Post date: 04-Mar-2013 10:36:35
To insert external image or document on a dashboard.
Created a folder to store the external files. Navigate to ‘Catalog’, click the ‘New’ on dropdown menu icon and choose ‘Folder’.
Enter the desired name of your folder.
With the new folder highlighted in the right pane of the Catalog manager, an option for ‘Upload’ appears in the bottom left hand Tasks area. This is how we get the external files into the web catalog.
To display the files on a dashboard page, add an Action Link object to the page or, on this example – add a Link or Image object. Drag into dashboard section.
Edit the properties. Enter some text in the caption field – this becomes the link text. Select the URL radio button and enter the URL. The below example, use Presentation Services’ internal mechanism for presenting files for download.
Translate the URL path to the file. The format for example to insert a PDF document is:
http://server-name:7001/analytics/saw.dll?downloadFile&path=%2Fshared%2FPDFs%2FFilename.pdf
To insert Map image to Prototype PRJ Dashboard, type the image path on the Image section. The format to insert an image is:
http://hkntap202.prasia.pernod-ricard-asia.com:7001/analytics/saw.dll?downloadFile&path=%2fshared%2fPic%2fADF Map.png
URL is added added to a pdf icon in the image box and set it to show to the left of the caption.
View the dashboard and test the link. The external file will begin to download or display as Image.