Questions about Dashboard Design Principles - So what I'll do next now is I'll open the floor for some questions about dashboard design principles. If there are some questions, you are welcome to type them into the gotowebinar question panel, and I'll try to address them within the remaining time. Okay, so a couple of questions here. I should have probably mentioned at the beginning, will we get the recording of this presentation? Then, the answer is yes. The recording will be available and will be sent out to you, everybody that registered to this webinar in a follow up email in a couple of days. So there's another question here about how to specifically design and create dashboards in InetSoft? So, there is a great webinar on our webinar space on the website, I don't remember the exact name of it, but if you go to webinar page, it will be quite clear and done a few months ago, it actually shows you moving from data to dashboard showing you step by step how you create the dashboard. So definitely there is this type of webinar available to you if you want to watch it. So there's a question here about the choice of a data visualization that we use on our dashboard, specifically, should I be using gauges and other types of visualization that help with the visual appeal that the people perceive? I think the answer to that is it really depends on the environment you are operating...
Quick Examples of Dashboards - One of the new features in version 11 is that it uses the information about the underlying schema from your database to warn about possible double-counting. So as soon as I added the aggregation on number in stock, it made quantity and total grayed out. I can try to include these in my table, but it may cause double-counting. So for instance, let me try to add this now. It warns me with a pop-up. A trap is detected that could result in double-counting and inflate the value of the aggregates. Of course, I can override this, if I know what I am doing, or I can back out and undo that last change. If I actually open up the model, this is based on this physical view, let me open up the physical view, and here is where the cardinality and connectivity between the tables is defined. We will actually automatically detect this, so when I drag from Category ID to Category ID, notice that it detects this as being one-to-many. I can also go into the Properties here and change the cardinality between these tables, one-to-one, many-to-many etc. So that’s essentially what I wanted to show on the desktop side in Style Studio. Now I am going to transition into the Web browser. I just have a couple of quick examples of dashboards to show here. These are just giving you some idea for what can be created on the visualization side of the product. The next dashboard here that I am going to show will also allow me to illustrate one of the new features in version 11...
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Quick Summary Dashboard - That’s it. That’s a quick summary dashboard made in a couple of minutes. What I can do is I can drag and drop a selection element, and then I can maybe take my customer company field, and I can drag it on there. By default, you’re going to be working in the live edit view, so you pull back at least the first 50,000s result based on the query to give you a small sample of what the dashboard looks like as you’re building it. So, what I can do is I can drag and drop the customers. Because they’re row and column oriented, they fit to the grid instead of floating up like other elements. I can go ahead, and I can resize and format this however I want. If I choose a specific day, it’s going to show me which companies fall within that date. My initial selections, these are considered valid selections. I don’t have to do anything to give the filtering, to give the interactivity to the dashboard based on that backend. How we know the columns relate is that our tool automatically does it for you. I can drag and drop a range slider, and I can drag and drop order date on it. That way I can enable people to look at all of the historical data or just the most recent, the past couple of months or so. So, I can automatically start changing the date range which I’m looking at for my data. Maybe I want to look at my overall revenue numbers data in my selection. I can choose the date...
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“Flexible product with great training and support. The product has been very useful for quickly creating dashboards and data views. Support and training has always been available to us and quick to respond.
- George R, Information Technology Specialist at Sonepar USA
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