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Dashboard filters enable you to select only the data that you want to use to analyze and compare performance across views and reports. When you create a filter with Time Intelligence (TI), you can build data sets that are based on the current date. Then, you can use the filtered data in the views and elements of a dashboard. With TI, Monitoring Server automatically resets the current date in the filter, so that you do not have to modify your member selections every time that you update the report.

You can build TI filters that select data from multiple data sources. When you set up individual data sources, you also map the time references in each data source to the same unified calendar. TI filters draw data that uses this unified calendar. Because Monitoring Server maintains the unified calendar for all mapped data sources, you can use data from any mapped data source without performing complex re-calculations.

When you create reports, you specify the data source that you want the filter to use by selecting items from filter lists. Then, you can link the filter to views and reports so that they update at the same time. You can override the filters when appropriate.

Time intelligent filters can be added to pages, zones, or items.

Plan the filter

  Step 1: Decide what the filter should do

  Step 2: Identify important factors for implementation

  Step 3: Prepare the dashboard for filtering

Create the filter elements

  Step 4: Create Monitoring Server data sources

  Step 5: Create a filter that uses Time Intelligence

Publish the dashboard

After you create your data sources, scorecards, and scorecard elements, you can publish everything that you created to Monitoring Server. This makes the elements that you created available to all users who have appropriate permissions.

  Step 6: Publish the dashboard