Enter Parameter Values dialog

This dialog appears after you click on the side bar. In this dialog, all the parameters used in the current dashboard are listed. Same-name parameters are allowed when they are from different library components. You can specify the values to rerun the dashboard. See the dialog.

You may specify parameter values in these ways:

In the parameter value combo box, select the required one from the drop-down list or input the value manually.
Click the chooser button if it is available to specify multiple values in the Enter Values dialog.
Click the calendar button if it is available to specify a date and time value using either calendar or expression in the Calendar dialog.
Click the Use Saved Values icon if it is available and select a previously saved parameter value list to apply.

Save as default

Saves current parameter values as the default values for all the library components in the dashboard. If users do not set the default values, or if any of the parameters cannot find a matched validated value from the saved default values, all the parameters will use the default values in the library components.

If later you change the parameter sharing setting in the dashboard, the saved default values will be cancelled and the default values in the library components will be used.

JDashboard remembers the last-time saved result of a dashboard and displays the exact result the next time the dashboard is opened. In the case a dashboard user sets USA as the default parameter value and then filters the result with Canada and saves the dashboard, the next time the dashboard will run with China, though the saved default parameter value is still kept as USA.

This option is enabled when the dashboard is already saved.

Submit

Closes this dialog and applies the specified values to run the dashboard.

Reset

Resets the parameter values to either of the following:

Original Default Values
The default values in the library components.
User Defined Default Values
The default values specified using the save as default action.

Cancel

Cancels changing the parameter values and closes this dialog.

Use Saved Values

The icon is available when Enable Saving Parameter Values is enabled and Manually is checked in the Profile > Customize Server Preferences > Advanced tab.

After clicking this icon, a drop-down list that contains the lists of previously saved parameter values will be displayed for you to choose one to apply.

The button next to a drop-down list is used to delete the saved list from the list library.

You can also save the current parameter values as a whole marked as a list for reuse next time, by typing a name for the list in the text box which shows "Save current values into list" and then clicking

. The parameter value lists saved for a dashboard are limited. The maximum number is controlled by the option Maximum Number of Auto Complete Parameters List in the Profile > Customize Server Preferences > Advanced tab. By default it is 3. When the number of the saved parameter value lists reaches the maximum number, if you want to save another parameter value list, it will overwrite the oldest one.

Displays this help document.

Ignores the setting and closes this dialog.

Note: You are recommended not to use blank as the thousands separator in Number-typed parameter values under French locale, otherwise your input will not be correctly recognized because of a JVM bug. For details, see http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do;jsessionid=c8cdaf911b20fffffffffd9fc6340b30d670?bug_id=4510618.