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difference between homepage and dashboard?

Ahmmed Ali — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 09:01:46 GMT

Hi All,

What is the difference between homepage and dashboard?

Re: difference between homepage and dashboard?

Alikutty A — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 11:28:30 GMT

Hi Ahmmed,

Dashboards enable you to display multiple reporting elements from Performance Analytics, gauges, and other widgets on a single screen. It simplifies your daily task by grouping all your reporting elements at a single place. When you set a dashboard as your homepage, it becomes the page that is loaded every time you logon to Service Now (default homepage).

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Re: difference between homepage and dashboard?

hvrdhn88 — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 12:46:10 GMT

Hi Ahmmed,

Dashboard: In my experience "dashboard" is used as a catch-all term to refer to any collection of data visualizations OR a control panel from which to accomplish multiple actions.

1 Overview

Dashboards form the entry point for Performance Analytics users. A dashboard shows widgets for the most relevant indicators for specific users or groups. Information can be presented using several visualizations, such as charts, scorecards, lists, or dials.

Dashboards are divided into tabs to logically group widgets that belong together. You can create separate dashboards according to topic, for example, for incident management, problem management, or request management.

Users must have the pa_viewer role to access dashboards. Users with the pa_admin and pa_power_user can set up and edit dashboards.

Creating Performance Analytics Dashboards - ServiceNow Wiki

Homepage: The home page is the first page people see when they login to service now.

1 Overview

A homepage is a dashboard that consists of navigational elements, functional controls, and system information. When a user logs on ServiceNow, the default homepage defined for their role appears unless the user switched to another homepage, in which case that homepage appears. Administrators can customize several settings for homepages, including settings that control read or write access for any homepage and how homepages render.

http://wiki.servicenow.com/index.php?title=Homepage_Administration#gsc.tab=0

Thanks,

Harshvardhan

Re: difference between homepage and dashboard?

Jack42 — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 06:31:32 GMT

Found a quite helpful link regarding that topic:

Differences between homepages and responsive and non-responsive dashboards

Re: difference between homepage and dashboard?

Tiago Duarte — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 11:30:12 GMT

Updated link to "Differences between homepages and responsive dashboards": https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/washingtondc-now-intelligence/page/use/dashboards/concept/differences-hps-and-resp-dbs.html