You can deliver your dashboard to members of your team by sending them an e-mail with a link to Express or an attached PDF.
Since we only have one user in our team, for simplicity in this recipe we will send a message to ourselves.
In order to see Flash contents in a PDF document, you need to install a separate Flash player (see article http://at5.us/Ch13U7). This is a standalone install, not the web browser plugin; download the appropriate version for your operating system and install it.
We are now sending a dashboard via e-mail:
- Once you have the Flash player installed go to the main team page. Move the cursor over Vehicles Co2 emissions, and click on the Share option.
- From the drop-down menu, select Deliver.
- A page named Delivery Settings opens, click on the To button and in the Select Recipients dialog select your name in the Users list. Then press OK.
- Enable the checkbox labeled Include a portable dashboard in PDF format.
- Open the Frequency dropdown and choose One time, immediately.
- Press OK and check your e-mail.
- Open the message and download the copy of
Vehicles Co2 emissions.pdf. - Open the file in Adobe Reader. Once it loads try to click on the page-by buttons to change the Heat Map.
Wow!
The PDF contains a copy of the entire dashboard in Flash format. When the Adobe reader finds Flash content in a file, it loads the Flash player to render it. We are actually looking at an embedded SWF inside a PDF document.
You can schedule a delivery too. Instead of choosing One time, immediately on step 5, pick On the following schedule and fill the Select a schedule below dialog box.
Dashboard sharing is also available for the personal accounts. It doesn't allow to schedule a delivery but you can send a link via e-mail or embed an IFRAME into your web page or blog, which is an extremely useful feature.
The procedure is very similar: in the personal main page, hover the cursor on a dashboard name and click on Share. Then select from the available options the last one: Embed (Social). This provides you with the HTML code to embed the dashboard in a standard web page.
- Appendix C, Cloudera Hadoop
- Appendix D, HP Vertica