6. Create Dashboard

A dashboard helps you summarize information on various aspects of your data. You can add visualizations to your dashboard and then embed it into any application if you want to present it to stakeholders.

UI
API

Steps:

  1. In your workspace, switch to the Dashboards tab and select Create dashboard.

    The Dashboards tab is selected, and a the Create dashboard button is highlighted.

  2. Drag and drop the Revenue by Country visualization from the Saved visualizations catalog into the dashboard:

    A dashboard with the Revenue by Country attribute being dragged from the left hand side visualizations catalog into the dashboard itself.

    The Revenue by Country visualization is now part of the dashboard. However you might notice it looks different than when you first created it:

    The Revenue by Country visualization embedded into the dashboard but displaying only a single data point.

    This is because by default new dashboards contain a Date range filter set to just the previous month, next you will need to change this filter.

  3. In the Date range filter, select All and click Apply.

    The Date range filter being clicked on and open offering a wide selection of different time intervals to choose from.

    Visualizations on this dashboard now display all data as expected:

    The dashboard with embedded Revenue by Country visualization, but this time it displays all data points.

  4. Drag and drop the Order Amount by Category visualization next to the Revenue by Country visualization on the dashboard:

    The Order Amount by Category visualization being dragged from the Available visualizations catalog into the dashboard itself.

    Your dashboard should now look like this:

    The dashboard showing the two visualizations embedded next to each other.

  5. You can add more filters to your dashboard by dragging the Filter widget into the filter bucket at the top of the dashboard:

    The filter widget being dragged from the left-hand side panel into a filter bucket at the top of the dashboard.

    Select to filter by the Product categroy attribute.

    Note that when you change the value the of the filter, all visualizations in the dashboard are filtered by that filter:

    The dashboard with the Product category attribute filter highlighted at the top of the dashboard.

    For now, you can leave it on All, dashboard users can then change the filter values themselves.

  6. Name the dashboard Sales, name the dashboard section title Sales Overview and Save the dashboard:

    The dashboard with the dashboard and section titles filled in.

    The dashboard is ready to be used:

    The dashboard in it's final form, no longer in edit view.

To create a dashboard, submit a POST request to /api/v1/entities/workspaces/<WORKSPACE_ID>/analyticalDashboards:

curl $HOST_URL/api/v1/entities/workspaces/<WORKSPACE_ID>/analyticalDashboards \
  -H "Content-Type: application/vnd.gooddata.api+json" \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.gooddata.api+json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <API_TOKEN>" \
  -X POST \
  -d '{
  "data": {
    "id": "myDashboardId",
    "type": "analyticalDashboard",
    "attributes": {
      "title": "Sales API",
      "description": "",
      "content": {
        "filterContextRef": {
          "identifier": {
            "id": "570e2500-f64b-463e-8f2b-291aa21fb3e9",
            "type": "filterContext"
          }
        },
        "layout": {
          "type": "IDashboardLayout",
          "sections": [
            {
              "type": "IDashboardLayoutSection",
              "header": {
                "title": "Sales Overview"
              },
              "items": [
                {
                  "type": "IDashboardLayoutItem",
                  "widget": {
                    "type": "insight",
                    "insight": {
                      "identifier": {
                        "id": "22246615-c6bf-4979-a123-8a09fca3e901",
                        "type": "visualizationObject"
                      }
                    },
                    "ignoreDashboardFilters": [],
                    "drills": [],
                    "title": "Revenue by Country",
                    "description": "",
                    "dateDataSet": {
                      "identifier": {
                        "id": "customer_created_date",
                        "type": "dataset"
                      }
                    },
                    "localIdentifier": "3361d1f9-9822-4467-ad58-c7a915e7d4d1"
                  },
                  "size": {
                    "xl": {
                      "gridHeight": 22,
                      "gridWidth": 6
                    }
                  }
                },
                {
                  "type": "IDashboardLayoutItem",
                  "widget": {
                    "type": "insight",
                    "insight": {
                      "identifier": {
                        "id": "060329b5-e38e-414c-9761-21da2f22da94",
                        "type": "visualizationObject"
                      }
                    },
                    "ignoreDashboardFilters": [],
                    "drills": [],
                    "title": "Order Amount by Category",
                    "description": "",
                    "dateDataSet": {
                      "identifier": {
                        "id": "customer_created_date",
                        "type": "dataset"
                      }
                    },
                    "localIdentifier": "a6f51ad2-707b-4a5e-882f-426929b617ac"
                  },
                  "size": {
                    "xl": {
                      "gridHeight": 22,
                      "gridWidth": 6
                    }
                  }
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        "version": "2"
      }
    }
  }
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5. Create Metrics
7. Embed Dashboard