Dashboard in an Object

[Edward77]

    Is it possible to include a dashboard with an object.  In other words, what I am trying to do is show the revenue for an account in the Account object so that when I open an Account I can look at the revenue for say 2008. 

I thought I saw something in Successforce.com that allow you to do that but I cannot find it.

[Gemini@Work]

Do you want a field that just gives the revenue total for the current FY, or do you really want to include a graphical component from an existing dashboard that shows this data (in a bar/line graph format)?  Personally, I'd think users would prefer seeing it as a value -- but you may be working with a specific user request to display a dashboard graphical component.

Either way, the method for doing this is by using the Formula data type.  This document titled, "Useful Formula Fields" describes how you can use formulas effectively.

[Edward77]

thx.  but what I thought i saw somewhere is SF.com was the ability to put a dashboard moduale (i.e, bar chart showing trended revenue) in another object and not build formulas.  Maybe a better example is that I have a object called Account Plans and I want to show the revenue generated by that specific account with the Account Plans.  Right now, the guys manually enter the data.

Again, I thought I saw an example somewhere is SF.com but I may have been. mistaken

[Gemini@Work]

And you have a Dashboard today that shows the information with a graphical component as well?

[Edward77]

Yes, I just cannot embed it into my Acct Plan object.

[AlexY]

I'm trying to do the same thing but by way of an inline s-control:

https://emea.salesforce.com/servlet/servlet.ChartServer?id=00O200000020xBm?pv0=001200000008nji&rsid=...

Whilst this shows me the chart on the account page, where I want to display it, the chart is empty (i.e shows axes, title, etc, but not content).

I'm a novice when it comes to these things so am yet to figure out how to make this work.

Any help would be much appreciated

Alex

[geoff davenport]

I'm in the exact same boat.  I've been working with more basic stuff in salesforce for about a year.  Now, all I want to do is use an s-control to display a dashboard inside the detail section of a contact page layout.  Something tells me this must be pretty straightforward and that tons of people are already doing this, but I'm stuck. 

I did manage to copy and paste some HTML that placed a cropped version of 3 dashboards side-by-side (I viewed the source code of my home screen.  Clicking on the dashboards pulled up the underlying table and everything.  But the cropping is bad, and I want to easily be able to isolate a single dashboard. 

Help from the millions of you more experienced than I would be greatly appreciated.