The Dashboard Chooser allows the user to find and view other dashboards that they have permissions to view. For dashboards that have a facility selected, the permissions are checked against the facility permissions. Click on the Choose Dashboard 
button on the dashboard header to open the Dashboard Chooser.
Interface and Viewing Options
In the upper left corner of the Dashboard Chooser, the folder structure is displayed and indicates the level at which the user has drilled down, as shown below:
Close Dashboard Chooser – The 
icon closes the Dashboard Chooser without changing the selected dashboard.
The Dashboard Chooser provides a variety of options to view and select dashboards. Select the More Options Favorites – Lists the user's favorite dashboards. Favorite dashboards are selected in tile view by clicking the star on the tile. This will change the star to gold, and that dashboard will show up in the Favorites view. Recent – Lists recently used dashboards, sorted in reverse chronological order (most recently used appearing first). Browse – Browse all dashboards accessible to the user. Tile View – Displays the dashboards as large tiles. In the tile view, the Dashboard Chooser will display two different icons: The Dashboard Grid View – Displays the dashboards in list form (default view). In addition to the dashboard name, this view displays the DASHBOARD_CODE, DASHBOARD_ID, and owner of the dashboard. The grid view offers a filter functionality by entering text into a text box field at the top of each column. Multiple fields can be filtered simultaneously by entering filter criteria in two or more columns. In the example below, a red highlight surrounds the text boxes where filter values are entered and shows the filtered results when the term "Demo" was entered in the Name column and "@earthsoft" was entered in the Owner column. The current filter values are summarized in the bottom left corner, shown with a red highlight. |
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icon to open a drop-down menu with the following options:
icon. When selecting an item from the Dashboard Chooser that displays the Dashboard icon, the user will automatically be redirected to that dashboard. When selecting an item from the Dashboard Chooser that displays the Folder icon, the user will be directed to another tile view that contains all of the dashboards and/or folders within the parent folder. Long dashboard names may be truncated if they exceed the size of the tile. The full dashboard name can be viewed by hovering the mouse over the dashboard name.
Once the desired dashboard is found, simply click on the tile to select the dashboard and close the Dashboard Chooser. To open another dashboard in a new browser tab, press the CTRL key and click on the desired dashboard. The Dashboard Chooser stays open.
Configuring a default dashboard, or adjusting how the available dashboards are displayed, can be done using the Application Settings section of the User Profile Editor.
Dashboard Search Capabilities
Search available dashboards by entering a text string into the search box 
below the Dashboard Chooser header. The display of dashboards will be limited to the search string. Note that the search string must be at least three (3) characters; searching one or two characters will not return results.
The search field supports a variety of search axes as well as generic searches, which will search across the majority of text fields. The available search axes are all the fields in the SDT_DASHBOARD table as well as the pseudo-field name, which is an alias for title. The search parser will separate axes from the rest of the search string, which allows for queries that combine general searches and axes searches. Double quotes can be used around search parameters that have spaces in them.
Here are a few examples:
•To search for all dashboards belonging to a user whose ID is 999, the search string would be "dashboard.user_id:999."
•To search for all dashboards that have a facility set (ID = 1) and that have the word "reports" in the title, the search string would be "facility_id:1 reports."
•To search for all dashboards that are not shared with all users, the search string would be "dashboard.share_type:None."
The Dashboard Chooser can search through all folders, but the search option does not automatically search sub-folders. A notice at the bottom of the search window indicates that additional results may be available and when the user selects the Search button, a search will be performed across all folders and sub-folders for any dashboard titles matching the search string. The search will temporarily reset the current folder structure. Clicking the 
icon at the end of the search box will clear the search and reset the user to the folder structure prior to the search.
Virtual Folders
The Dashboard Chooser contains two virtual folders to help organize dashboards: By Facility and By User. These folders list dashboards by facility and by dashboard creator, respectively.