Salient Dashboards Help Center

Welcome to Salient Dashboards, the dynamic, web-based solution for getting the information needed to improve performance and efficiency. This help center explains how to view and explore interactive dashboards of business intelligence.

 

What's New:

Version 8.6 provides new ways to visualize data, including bubble charts, color scatter plots, integrated views of pass/fail numbers with data values, and more. Other enhancements make dashboards easier to use.

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Get started

Log inLog in

  1. In your web browser, go to the address of the Salient Dashboards login page.

  2. From the Server menu, select a dataset.

  3. For classic login (i.e., credentials entered directly in Salient Dashboards), enter your user name and password. Then, click Login.
     

 

External/SSO authentication: Click the SSO Login button. If you are not already logged in, the next screen will allow you to enter your user name and password and Sign in.

LDAP login (i.e., machine login used for authentication): The user name and password entries may not be needed.

The first screen will typically be a portal dashboard that provices fast and easy access to dashboards. 

 

Open a dashboardOpen a dashboard

After logging in, use any of the following methods to open a dashboard:

 

View a dashboardView a dashboard

Opening a dashboard typically takes you to view mode where you can interact with the data and make some changes, such as measure selection, date setup, filters, sorting, and more—depending on how the dashboard was set up.

ExploreExplore

Explore mode provides additional capabilities for data investigation beyond those available in view mode. You can change the analysis type, access advanced settings, apply highlighting, and more. 

To start exploring, click  in the upper-right corner of a widget (visible on mouseover) to open the menu.

Select Explore From Here.

Tip: If you prefer, you can use a default starting point for exploring. Select Explore on the dashboards menu.

 

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Browse help topics

View mode Filter
Grid and graph formats Visual options
Measure selection Explore mode
Insert variance Data analysis types
Date setup Share
Group By attributes Knowledge Manager

 

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Modified 2024-02-07