Publishing a Dashboard

Introduction

Publishing a dashboard is very similar to publishing a view. Therefore, you should familiarize yourself with Publishing, and this page only covers the options that are unique to dashboards.

When you publish a dashboard, you create a copy of the dashboard, marked published, that can be displayed on its own and has options described in the Publishing page and here.

You can think of a dashboard in Explore Analytics as a layout of multiple views to be presented together. When you publish a dashboard, only the dashboard itself (with any slicers) is copied as part of the publishing process. The views that it contains are already published and are not published again.

Auto-Rotate Tabs

If the dashboard contains multiple tabs, you have the option to have the dashboard auto-rotate through multiple tabs (this option has no effect if the dashboard has no tabs).

This publishing option is useful if you intend to leave the dashboard running on a display in the manner of a slide show. For interactive users it's best to allow the users to navigate themselves. Having the tab automatically rotate in the middle of making a slicer selection, for example, can be quite undesirable.

When you set this option, the published dashboard will auto-rotate the tabs according to the interval that you specify. For example, if you set the interval to 10 seconds, then 10 seconds after displaying a tab, the next tab will be displayed. When the last tab is reached, the next tab will be the first tab.

Auto-refresh all views periodically

Automatically refreshing views may be useful if you intend to leave the dashboard running on a display in the manner of a slide show and want to periodically re-run live views to show the latest data.

For interactive users it's best to allow the users to refresh when needed and not automatically.

Constantly refreshing live views can add undue load on your data source.

You're advised not to use this feature. A much better alternative is to set auto-refresh only for views that show data that changes often. To set auto-refresh on individual views, see Adding a View to a Dashboard.

The auto-refresh is based on a time interval with a minimum of 5 minutes. For more frequent refresh, set auto-refresh on specific dashboard items rather than the dashboard as a whole, see Adding a View to a Dashboard.

If the dashboard has multiple tabs, auto-refresh will only refresh the current tab immediately. It will mark the other tabs as needing refresh, but the refresh will only happen the next time that the tab is displayed.

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