## Opening Visual Analysis in JDashboard

If your JReport Server is enabled with Visual Analysis, you can access Visual Analysis directly from JDashboard without having to switch to the server user console. Visual Analysis is loaded in JDashboard as a tab with full functionalities for you to perform data analysis with.

### Accessing Visual Analysis

In the edit mode of JDashboard, there are several ways to access Visual Analysis:

- On the dashboard title bar, leave the mouse cursor on the + button beside the rightmost tab for one second until a drop-down menu displays, then select New Analysis from the menu.
- On the side bar, click the New button and then select New Analysis.
- On the side bar, click the Options button and then select New > Analysis.

### Opening an existing Visual Analysis template

You can take the following ways to access Visual Analysis for a specific Visual Analysis template.

#### Using dialog

1. In the edit mode of JDashboard, click the Open button on the side bar, or click the Options button and select Open from the option list. The Open Document dialog appears. See the dialog.

2. Browse to the desired folder, select the Visual Analysis template you want to open and then click OK, or simply double-click the Visual Analysis template to open it.

#### Using the Resources panel

In the edit mode of JDashboard, click Show Resources on the side bar to open the Resources panel. Then in the Reports node, browse to the target Visual Analysis template with .va as the suffix and drag it to the editing area, Visual Analysis will be loaded in a JDashboard tab.

#### Using component title bar

After a Visual Analysis component is inserted in a dashboard, you can hover the mouse over its title bar, click that appears on the title bar, focus on Analyze on the drop-down menu, and then choose an option:

- In New Tab
  Opens Visual Analysis in a new JDashboard tab.
- In New Window
  Opens Visual Analysis in a new web browser window.

Note that the changes made on the Visual Analysis component in Visual Analysis will be saved to the server resource tree, however, they will not be reflected on the Visual Analysis component inserted in the dashboard.