COG170 COGITO LATEST 2026 CORE EXAMS MANUAL
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Define: Dashboard Editor - ✔✔Create and edit source dashboard records with the
dashboard editor.
Access the editor with Chart Search, editing a dashboard from the Analytics Catalog, or
editing a dashboard from the Proxy Dashboard prompt.
6 forms controls the dashboard's content & metadata:
1. Basic Information
2. Layout
3. Content
4. Resource Settings
5. Parameters
6. Access
✔✔Additional Information: Dashboard Editor - ✔✔Dashboards should be tailored to
their audience and tested to ensure they work.
Guidelines for creating and editing Radar content:
-Any dashboard available to a user must work
-All parts of a dashboard must work
-Dashboards must have a defined target audience
-Each user in that audience must have security/access for all components and reports
on dashboard
✔✔Define: Component Editor - ✔✔Accessed via Chart Search for Component Editor
- Six types of component records in Radar
1. Graph
2. Link
3. Message Board
4. Native HTML
5. Report Listing
6. Table
✔✔Additional Information: Component Editor - ✔✔Components have Five Forms
1. Basic Information
2. Display
3. Data Source
4. Output Format
5. Access
Similar to the Dashboard Editor, each form controls your component's content and its
metadata.
, ✔✔Define Activity Descriptor - ✔✔The Active activity descriptor field displays for your
currently active Hyperspace activity.
There are two Hyperspace workflows that can find the activity descriptor for a given
activity.
✔✔Hyperspace workflow 1: Find Activity Descriptor - ✔✔Activity: Create a component
which has a header that is able to take you to the Component Editor directly from your
Radar dashboard.
1. Access the about Hyperspace information window
2. Double-check that you are currently in the Component Editor activity
3. Access the About Hyperspace window by navigating to the Epic button > Help >
About Hyperspace.
4. The Active activity descriptor field displays for your currently active Hyperspace
activity.
✔✔Hyperspace workflow 2: Find Activity Descriptor - ✔✔Activity Descriptor in the Menu
Summary:
End-users often request links to activities that you lack the security to access. Thus you
can not determine the activity descriptor from the About Hyperspace workflow. For
these instances, use the following workflow.
1. Use Chart Search to launch the Menu Summary activity.
2. Refer to pg. 2-22 for scenario.
3. Because Admin is under the Epic button, start by expanding EDMAINAPPMENU
4. Any menu that is displayed visually to the end-user will be listed under the caption.
5. Expand the Admin sub-menu
6. Expand the Access Management sub-menu
7. Select User Security
Activity Descriptor is located in the Activity Information section. User Security is
E_EMP_EMPGUI
✔✔Perform Task: Create and edit dashboards - ✔✔Run through the following
Exercises/Examples
1. pg. 2-11 Radar Exploration
✔✔Perform Task: Navigate the Dashboard Editor - ✔✔Run through the following
Exercises/Examples
1. pg. 2-13 Dashboard Editor
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Define: Dashboard Editor - ✔✔Create and edit source dashboard records with the
dashboard editor.
Access the editor with Chart Search, editing a dashboard from the Analytics Catalog, or
editing a dashboard from the Proxy Dashboard prompt.
6 forms controls the dashboard's content & metadata:
1. Basic Information
2. Layout
3. Content
4. Resource Settings
5. Parameters
6. Access
✔✔Additional Information: Dashboard Editor - ✔✔Dashboards should be tailored to
their audience and tested to ensure they work.
Guidelines for creating and editing Radar content:
-Any dashboard available to a user must work
-All parts of a dashboard must work
-Dashboards must have a defined target audience
-Each user in that audience must have security/access for all components and reports
on dashboard
✔✔Define: Component Editor - ✔✔Accessed via Chart Search for Component Editor
- Six types of component records in Radar
1. Graph
2. Link
3. Message Board
4. Native HTML
5. Report Listing
6. Table
✔✔Additional Information: Component Editor - ✔✔Components have Five Forms
1. Basic Information
2. Display
3. Data Source
4. Output Format
5. Access
Similar to the Dashboard Editor, each form controls your component's content and its
metadata.
, ✔✔Define Activity Descriptor - ✔✔The Active activity descriptor field displays for your
currently active Hyperspace activity.
There are two Hyperspace workflows that can find the activity descriptor for a given
activity.
✔✔Hyperspace workflow 1: Find Activity Descriptor - ✔✔Activity: Create a component
which has a header that is able to take you to the Component Editor directly from your
Radar dashboard.
1. Access the about Hyperspace information window
2. Double-check that you are currently in the Component Editor activity
3. Access the About Hyperspace window by navigating to the Epic button > Help >
About Hyperspace.
4. The Active activity descriptor field displays for your currently active Hyperspace
activity.
✔✔Hyperspace workflow 2: Find Activity Descriptor - ✔✔Activity Descriptor in the Menu
Summary:
End-users often request links to activities that you lack the security to access. Thus you
can not determine the activity descriptor from the About Hyperspace workflow. For
these instances, use the following workflow.
1. Use Chart Search to launch the Menu Summary activity.
2. Refer to pg. 2-22 for scenario.
3. Because Admin is under the Epic button, start by expanding EDMAINAPPMENU
4. Any menu that is displayed visually to the end-user will be listed under the caption.
5. Expand the Admin sub-menu
6. Expand the Access Management sub-menu
7. Select User Security
Activity Descriptor is located in the Activity Information section. User Security is
E_EMP_EMPGUI
✔✔Perform Task: Create and edit dashboards - ✔✔Run through the following
Exercises/Examples
1. pg. 2-11 Radar Exploration
✔✔Perform Task: Navigate the Dashboard Editor - ✔✔Run through the following
Exercises/Examples
1. pg. 2-13 Dashboard Editor
