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Organising the dashboard layout using Dash Studio lets you explore important data about the system. You can find required dashboards, delete dashboards, and create new ones. You can place widgets on the canvas in Responsive mode layout and Fixed Aspect Ratio layout. The canvas is a backdrop where in you can drop the content like widgets.

Dashboard Organization

Create Dashboards

Dash Studio allows you to create a dashboard without having to name it first, or indicate its layout or characteristics. If you accidentally close a dashboard without naming it, the dashboard is saved (see Auto-Save for more information) and is named as Untitled-X. X is the next Untitled dashboard in the collection of dashboards that you are authorised to access and is saved in dashboards creation directory. You can see Untitled-X as the dashboard title on the dashboard screen as soon as the new dashboard canvas loads. You can rename the dashboard as required.

Auto-save

Dashboards are auto-saved by default. 

Responsiveness and Sizing

You can resize the Dashboard canvas to any screen size which enables you to switch between editing and viewing mode. By default the dashboard automatically resizes and fits on the screen. The width of some columns in the dashboard are locked so that when you resize a dashboard, locked column is not resized. The default canvas sizing is that of a laptop screen’s dimensions. 

Dashboard Editor ActionsDescription

Adding Widget

You can drag and drop widgets from the toolbar onto the dashboard canvas.

Alignment and Placement

The widgets can be placed anywhere on the dashboard canvas, which includes placing widgets on top of other widgets or running off the edge of the canvas itself. The red alignment lines allow quick visual alignment of widgets in a manual fashion. These lines also indicate users when the widgets are at an appropriate distance from other widgets.

Group Creation

You can select multiple widgets by dragging a box over them with a mouse or holding shift and selecting all widgets by mouse click.

Selection and Undo/Redo/Copy/Paste

You can select widgets or groups of widgets by clicking them or dragging a mouse-generated box over them by holding down the left mouse button. Multiple widgets can be selected by either dragging the box or by command-click action. Undo/redo action can be  accomplished by a toolbar command and also by command-z / command-y functionality on the keyboard. Users can copy, cut or paste groups of widgets by a toolbar command and also using command-c, command-x, or command-v functionality.


Selection in Edit Mode

You can select widgets or groups in edit mode by clicking them or dragging a mouse-generated box over them by holding down the left mouse button. You can select multiple widgets by either dragging the box or by command-click action. In view mode, data queries are not exposed, only a double-click drills down to the next data level.

For widgets:

Single click selects a widget, enables moving it, and exposes an editing icon at the top right of the widget. If users want to edit the data they should click on the editing icon. Double-click on the widget should drill down to next data level.  Google Data Studio is a good example of this interaction.

For groups:

Single clicking on a group selects that group, enables moving it, and exposes the editing icon. Clicking again selects the widget being clicked on in the fashion described above. Double-clicking a widget in a group has the same selection effect as clicking once on the group and then clicking on the widget. Users have to double-click again to get to that widget’s drill-down.


Edit/View

 Dashboards can be viewed in two modes: 

  •  Edit mode 
  •  View mode

 By default dashboards are in View mode. The toolbar is not displayed in view mode.

General Layout

Toolbar

The dashboard editor tools available in the toolbar enables you to perform the following actions:

ActionsDescription
Undo/RedoThere are two buttons on the toolbar for undo and redo actions on a dashboard. You can also perform this action using command + z/command+ y keyboard functions. 
Copy/paste/delete Copy, paste or delete widgets or containers from a dashboard, using tools from the editing toolbar. These actions should also be possible using command-c, command-v, delete keys on the keyboard. 
Dashboard titleYou can edit dashboard title inline. By default new dashboard is called "Untitled Dashboard".


 

Data Panel

Data toolbar available at the bottom of the dashboard editor enables you to bind containers and visualisations to data. 

Widget Palette

The widget palette available on the on the left-side of the dashboard editor allows you to drag and drop widgets from the palette on to the canvas. 

 

Widget Properties Panel

The Properties panel available on the right-hand side of the dashboard editor lets you set the properties of a widget like background color, shadow, padding, and basic display options.