Adding Text Elements to a Dashboard

InetSoft's dashboard software text allow you to add freeform text elements to a visualiztion or analyis. View the example below to learn more about the Style Intelligence solution.

Text elements can be used to display static labels as well as summarized data for a single column in a Worksheet Data Block.

To add a Text element into a Viewsheet drag it from the Component tree into the Viewsheet grid. Use the mouse to move and resize the element. To bind a text element to a data column, drag the desired column from the Data Block (at the top of the Components tree) and drop it onto the element.

The Text component’s ‘Properties’ dialog box provides the following tabs: General, Data, and Pre-Aggregate. The next sections discuss the textspecific properties available under these tabs.

The General tab in the ‘Text Properties’ dialog box provides the following text-specific property.

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