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Creating Visual Insight dashboards that connect to Intelligent Cubes

A Visual Insight (VI) dashboard is a customized, interactive display that you can use to explore your business data. For example, you can sort and rearrange data in an interactive grid, perform manipulations on the data to display only the information you are interested in, and display visual representations of the data in the VI dashboard to make the data easier to interpret.

The steps to create VI dashboards that connect to Intelligent Cubes are described below.

Prerequisites

  • An Intelligent Cube has been created and published.
  • You need the Define Intelligent Cube Report privilege. This privilege is part of OLAP Services.
  • If you want to use multiple Intelligent Cubes as datasets for your dashboard, you must have the Execute Report that Uses Multiple Data Sources privilege.
  • If you want to use multiple Intelligent Cubes as datasets for your dashboard, you must have the Import Table from Multiple Data Sources privilege.

To create a Visual Insight dashboard that connects to Intelligent Cubes

  1. In Web, click New Dashboard. The Select Dataset dialog box opens.
  2. In the Select Dataset dialog box, navigate to the Intelligent Cube that you want to use for the dashboard.
  3. Select the Intelligent Cube, and click Next. A new VI dashboard opens, with the Intelligent Cube added to the Dataset Objects pane.

  4. To add another Intelligent Cube to the dashboard's datasets, in the toolbar, click Add Dataset.

    For steps to create visualizations and analyze data in VI dashboards, see the MicroStrategy Web Help.