Create a Summary Dashboard

You can create a summary dashboard composed of dash link panes each of which links to a specific dashboard as shown in the example below.

You can choose to display the following on a summary Dash Link pane:

  • Alternate between displaying a description of the dashboard and a stylized thumbnail
  • Alternate between displaying a dashboard description and summary data from a grid, chart, or gauge
  • Display only summary data from a Grid, Chart, or Gauge with no alternating description

Create a Summary Dashboard for Linked Dashboards

  1. Define a Dash Link block on your workspace for each dashboard to which you wish to link.

  1. Optionally, display summary data on a Dash Link pane:
    1. Open the dashboard to which you wish to link, and click the Summary tab.
    2. Using the Data blocks available (Query Data, Managed Data, Grid, Chart, or Gauge blocks) in the Summary tab Toolbox, build a dashboard for the summary information that you wish to display.

NOTE: If you do not define Summary Data for your dashboard, a stylized thumbnail will display for the Dash Link pane.

NOTE: You can use multiple data blocks (Grid, Chart and Gauge) and have the Summary Dashboard pane cycle between these multiple data sets.

  1. If you wish to display a description for your dashboard link, enter a description in the Description field on the Dashboard tab for the dashboard to which you are linking (as shown below).

NOTE: If you do not enter a Description for the dashboard, then the Dash Link block will only show the summary data.

  1. Optionally, click the Dashboard Summary Color button to select a color to use as the background color for the Dashboard Link Pane.
  2. Click Apply to save your changes.
  3. Repeat steps 2 - 5 for each dashboard to which you wish to link from a Dash Link block.