ServiceNow, Inc.
Dashboard overview navigation and search system

Abstract:

Systems and methods for a dashboard overview showing dashboards available for a user, a visual key of available dashboards and simplified access to most recently used dashboards are disclosed. A dashboard represents a user-defined display of key performance indicators (KPIs) in a manner perceived convenient by the user creating the dashboard. As dashboards have evolved a sharing aspect of dashboards has been determined to be a mechanism to promote reuse of dashboards. Including a visual clue on a dashboard selection page as to the underlying display presentation method has been determined to be an important aid in allowing for navigation amongst a plurality of dashboards available in an enterprise system. Sharing and retrieval techniques for dashboards are disclosed.