Dashboard Overview

What is InfoCaptor

 

InfoCaptor is a Rapid Dashboard Development tool that helps you create, manage and publish Dashboards (“Views”). InfoCaptor Dashboards can display information from different Databases on the same page. InfoCaptor facilitates virtual consolidation of data across various systems and there is no need for additional server side configuration in order to bring information from two different databases. InfoCaptor does not require additional hardware. It can work as a stand-alone desktop application or you can deploy it on your existing web-server.

 

- A dashboard is a view displaying metrics and key information in one screen.

 

- InfoCaptor dashboard definition is stored in an individual file with extension ".icv"

 

- Dashboard definition is nothing but a collection of SQL queries for each window and how each window should be displayed either as table, chart or parameter. It also contains how the query windows (portlets) are linked together namely as drills.

 

-   Each window in the dashboard is called as portlet. If the window displays tabular information it is called as "Qlet", if it displays graph it is called as "Glet". if it is a list of values or dashboard parameters then it is called as "Plet". These are just short acronyms for easy reference, nothing much.

 

- Each Portlet (Qlet and Glet) can have its own filters (defined using param). These filters are prompted to the user whenever you refresh the portlet. These filters are used when linking two portlets for passing values between them.

 

- Each dashboard can have one or more list of values (Plet) and they are also known as Global parameters. These parameters or list of values can be referenced by all the portlets (Qlet and Glet).

 

- You can launch InfoCaptor dashboard from your PC or web-server.