Dashboard components offer a visual representation of data to the user. They consist of an SQL statement, which if needed, can be dynamically altered by adding certain filters and criteria.

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Creating Dashboard Components

To create a new Dashboard Component, you need to

Defining Dashboard Components in Metadata

In order for the report to be available to the user, it must be defined in metadata file modules.xml, which is located under ../metadata directory

modules.xml

 <modules>
    <module>
        <moduleid>ACCOUNTS_RECEIVABLE</moduleid>
        <applicationid>FINANCE</applicationid>
        ...
        <features>
            <feature>
                ...
                <reports>
                    <report>
                        <id>ACCOUNTS_RECEIVABLE_BALANCE_REPORT</id>
                        <name>key_accounts_receivable_balance</name>
                        <description>key_view_the_accounts_receivable_balance</description>
                        <reportfilename>AccountsReceivable/Accounts_Receivable_Balance.xml</reportfilename>
                    </report>
                    ...
                </reports>
            </feature>
            ...
        </features>
    </module>
</modules>