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Creating a dashboard

You can create dashboards in Cloudera Data Visualization to organize and display multiple visuals based on your data.

  1. You can start creating a dashboard from several locations in the application.
    • Click NEW DASHBOARD in the top-right corner of the main HOME interface.
    • Click Create New > Dashboard in the top-right corner of the preview area in the VISUALS interface.
    • Click next to the name of a dataset on the DATA interface.
    • Click NEW DASHBOARD in the top-right corner of the Dataset Detail view for a particular dataset.

    The Dashboard Designer opens and displays a new, untitled dashboard. For an overview of the interface and its components, see the Dashboard Designer documentation.

  2. Optional: Change the connection and/or the dataset.
    The dashboard is automatically connected to the parent connection and dataset from which it was created. However, you can add visuals and filters based on other connections or datasets.
  3. Add a title for the dashboard.

    If the Enforce dashboard titles site setting is enabled, a title must be provided before you can save the dashboard. For more information about configuring this site setting, see Managing dashboard site settings.

    Optionally, you can also add a subtitle.

    In this example, World Life Expectancy and A new perspective are used as title and subtitle.

  4. Optional: Customize dashboard settings, styles, or create custom styles for the dashboard.
  5. Add visuals to the dashboard.
    In the VISUALS menu, select an existing visual from Recently Viewed Visuals, or from the list of visuals associated with the dataset. Alternatively, click NEW VISUAL to create a new visual on the dashboard.
  6. Click SAVE to save the dashboard.
  7. Click VIEW to preview the dashboard in runtime mode.