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Creating a dashboard

In CDP Data Visualization, you can easily create a new dashboard.

  1. There are several possible starting points for creating new dashboards:
    • Click the New Dashboard button on the main Visuals interface, in the top left corner.
    • On the Data interface, click on the (new dashboard) icon next to the name of a particular dataset.
    • On the Dataset interface for a particular dataset, click the New Dashboard button in the top right corner.
    • In the Visual Designer, by selecting New Dashboard from the supplemental drop-down menu, either in Dashboard/Sheet view, or in the Visual view.

    The Visual Designer opens on an untitled dashboard. See the Visual Designer for dashboards to familiarize yourself the interface.

    A new dashboard at creation time
  2. [Optional] Change the Connection and/or Dataset. Even though the dashboard is automatically connected to the parent connection and dataset, you can add visuals and filters based on other connections and datasets.
    A new dashboard at creation time
  3. In the Visuals menu, click to add one or more existing visual to the dashboard, either from Recently Viewed Visuals, or from the listed visuals of this dataset. Alternatively, you can create a new visual by clicking New Visual.
    We used the visuals World Life Expectancy - Grouped Bars and World Life Expectancy - Cross Tabulation.
  4. Click the Filters menu, and click on fields to add the filters. Alternatively, you can click Create a Custom Filter, for custom selections. You can also change the dataset and the connection in this menu.

    In this example, we used filters based on the un_region and country dimensions.

  5. Enter the Title for the dashboard, and an optional Subtitle.

    We used World Life Expectancy and A new perspective, respectively.

  6. [Optional] You can also customize settings, styles, and create custom styles for the dashboard.
  7. Click Save to save the dashboard.
  8. Click View to preview the dashboard at runtime.