Debugging a Dashboard

The following has been taken from the Tax Provision Blueprint "Instruction Guide" starting at page 445.

See KB article: "Tax Provision Blueprint Instruction Guide - PV7.3.0 SV100" 

In order to better understand how a dashboard is setup, set the “0_Frame_...” dashboard to “Set Selected Dashboard As Default”.

Next, run the dashboard from the same icon. Make sure you have a valid workflow POV.

You can now click on any “red triangle”, and it will highlight the dashboard component.

Next, you can click on the “Edit Component” icon, and it will take you to the component in the Dashboard Maintenance Unit.

If you populate the POV in the toolbar (make sure you also have a valid workflow POV), you can then hover over each parameter, and it will show you all the members that each parameter represents. If there are two of the same parameters; the first one represents what is in the toolbar area and the second represents what is in the data explorer cube view. These should always be the same. If they are different, then further investigation is required.

 

This is a great way to make sure that all the parameters are working properly. This can alleviate the option of using “write to the error log” syntax in the business rules (i.e.: brapi.ErrorLog.LogMessage(si,”Enter something here”)).