Administration of the Analytics Interface and User Experience
Administration surface
The administration console is the control point for status, security, configuration, content administration, and customization. The exam tests how to shape the analytics interface: capabilities, themes and extensions, home page and navigation, search, comments, notifications, and user preferences.
Core rules
- Capabilities decide which interface features a group can use; remove a capability to hide authoring or administration rather than deleting content.
- Customization packages can change branding, themes, and extensions; test them after upgrade because they are version-sensitive.
- Home page and navigation settings control the default landing experience; user preferences can override some system defaults.
- Search indexing and comments/annotations have their own administrative settings; enable them deliberately.
- Changes to system-wide interface settings affect all users, so pilot with a test group.
Worked example
A business group should see dashboards but not author reports. The administrator removes the report authoring capability from the group, leaves dashboard consumption enabled, and verifies with a test account. Content permissions remain unchanged, so existing reports are still viewable.
Traps
Confusing capability removal with content deletion; applying a theme globally without testing readability; leaving comments enabled where regulatory review forbids them; and assuming user preferences can override a denied capability.