Creating components

Components are the building blocks of dashboards and component creation is the first step in building a dashboard.

Creating components and dashboards is limited to users with Dashboard Designer, System Designer or System Administrator privileges.

Firstly, you must create a dataset (or have an existing dataset published to you). Each components is based on a single dataset and the first stage to creating a component is to select a dataset.

There are four types of component and this section covers everything you need to know to create a new:

• Chart
• Grid
• Gauge
• HTML Component

It also informs you how to edit existing components and how to customise the four core component types using the 'Display Options'  icon:

• Chart - Display Options
• Gauge - Display Options
• Grid - Display Options
• HTML - Display Options

This section also covers how to:

• Save Components
• Publish Components
• Delete Components.