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Exploring Dashboards

In MapStore, a Dashboard is a space where the user can add many Widgets, such as charts, maps, tables, texts and counters, and can create connections between them in order to:

  1. Provide an overview to better visualize a specific data context

  2. Interact spatially and analytically with the data by creating connections between widgets

  3. Perform analysis on involved data/layers

In order to create a new dashboard, the user can click on the Create Dashboard from the Add Resource button in Homepage. With a click on it, an empty dashboard workspace appears. This page is composed of a Top Toolbar, a Sidebar and a Viewer*:

Side Toolbar

From the Side Toolbar the user can:

  • Add new widgets with the button

  • See the connections between widgets with the button, available when connections are present (more information about this option are available in Connecting Widgets section)

  • See the About this dashboard panel by clicking the button, when Details are present

  • Export dashboard in json format by clicking the button

  • Import json dashboard files from your computer by clicking the button (it will replace the current dashboard directly)

  • Share the dashboard by clicking the button

  • Start the Tutorial by clicking the button

Viewer

Once the widgets are added in the viewer it is possible to:

  • Change widgets position by moving them with a simple Drag and Drop and resize them:

  • Access widgets menu from which the user can choose between several options (more information about this menu's options can be found in Map's Access Widget Menu section)

  • Take a look at the widget Description (more information about widget Description can be found in Map's Access Widgets Info section)