Creating Sub-dashboards

You will have noticed that the dashboard page provides a top navigation bar that allows you to select other dashboards. These dashboards are sub-dashboards of the Home dashboard. The out-of-the-box dashboards—Categories, Search, Document Library, Subscriptions, and Management—are implemented as sub-dashboards of the Home dashboard. If you take a look under the covers you will notice that they are subfolders of the Portal folder.

Most commonly, you will create a sub-dashboard of the Home dashboard, such that another tab will be added to the top navigation bar. The sub-dashboard appears as a peer of the Home dashboard. If you create a sub-dashboard of any other dashboard, you will see the true hierarchy, showing the new ...

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