Best practice in CRMA dashboard design
In the context of building dashboards in CRMA, what constitutes best practice? First, let's consider how best to use CRMA pages.
Leverage the smart use of pages
CRMA pages give you an extraordinary amount of design flexibility. Rather than creating multiple dashboards and linking between them, thereby hindering performance and losing filters, it is often best to leverage the smart use of pages.
The best way to explain this is by way of an example. In the Command Center dashboard, multiple pages have been used to allow the user to drill down from a high-level, aggregated page to detail pages. The next screenshot shows the top-level page, or home page, which is the starting point for the business user:
Figure 11.28 – The Command Center home page
In order to keep the home page as simple and as clean as possible, the dashboard filters are largely hidden from view, but they can be revealed with the...
