OBIEE Reports and Dashboards Best Practices

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 Dashboard - Performance

Practice Reasoning Avoid designing dashboards that return too much data Dashboards should show summary data with ability to drill into or link to detailed information with more reports. Avoid designing requests that use overly complex queries Derived metrics should be in the data source layer first, the metadata layer second, and report layer last. Use guided navigation to link to smaller dashboards Guided navigation can be set at the dashboard or at the report level. Ensure global filters have a default value Setting value to nothing or all will return all the data and impact performance. Setting a default values creates a smaller data set enhancing readability. All embedded reports on a dashboard issue their queries at dashboard load time Take this into consideration when choosing to embed large reports or link to them. Use multiple dashboard pages to separate large reports from each other when performance becomes an issue.