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Each dashboard is defined in a separate folder that is a direct child of the dashboards folder and must contain two files, index.xml and template.html.The index.xml is used to identify the dashboard's name and description just as in any other folder in the Pentaho solution repository. The template.html file determines the dashboard's design. The content layout as well as the static content are defined with regular HTML. Any kind of component can be used as a placeholder, being <div> and <span>-tags function as placeholders for the information objectsthe most commonly used.
These information objects are defined as dashboard components. When the user calls up a dashboard, one or multiple components will be executed from the dashboard library. Some of them will result in the executions of Action Sequences on the BI Platform. The platform returns the results and the dashboard library will send the content to be displayed in the <div>-tags specified tag back to the browser.