For some reason (and don't ask me why), the Panorama NovaView's documentation doesn't contain any information about some of the most important settings. Here some of them, hoping that this will help many users:
- In the Panorama Web Access web site, by default a user can save his views (after he made his modifications) only in his private book. To enable him save his views in the Briefing Book (which means - the public book), do the following: Inside the Panorama server, open the Registry Editor (Start -> Run -> regedit) and go to the path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Panorama\Nova View 5\Admin. Add a new string value named "PublicBookAdmin". As its value, enter all the users you want to give them the option to save their views in the Briefing Book by this template: <User1Domain>\<User1Name>,<User2Domain>\<User2Name>, etc. For example: panoramaDevServer\PowerUser, MSHOME\Miky.
- The subscriptions web part will show you only the views that you registered to, but by default no one can register himself to the views. What you need to do is to open the Registry Editor in the panorama server, go to the same path as mentioned above and add a string value named "ShowSubsAndAlerts" with the value 1. After that, every user will be able to right click on any view in the Panorama Web Access web site, click on Register and it will be added to the subscriptions web part for him.
- For some users, the loading animations which are shown before every applet appears in the Dashboard website will stay forever, meaning that the user will never see the dashboard itself. I think this has something to do with the Java or Microsoft VM of the user. Anyway, a nice workaround is to cancel this animation. To do this, enter the path C:\Program Files\Panorama\E-BI\Dashboard\include (replace the beginning if you installed to panorama software in a different location) and inside the Config.asp file, change the constant "ShowAnimationWhileLoadingApplets" value to false. This is a good workaroung because anyway, the applets should appear in a second or two. Otherwise - buy a faster server.
As I go on working with Panorama I'll write some more tips & tricks. Stay Tuned.