Dashboards

Put views from several tables on one canvas, add text and controls, and make them talk to each other. Sharing and publishing are a team-edition thing.

1. Creating a dashboard and adding chartsA dashboard is a canvas holding views from several tables plus some text and controls. How to create one, what each of the three buttons on the right adds, whether to reference an existing view or build a new chart, and the free edition's one-dashboard limit.
2. Layout and inline editingDrag, resize, duplicate and remove components; the hover menu's Change View, Edit Inline and Edit in Advanced Editor; and Fullscreen View and Download PNG under the component's ⋮.
3. Non-data components: text, embed, inputs and date pickersThe blocks on a dashboard that aren't bound to a table — headings and captions, an embedded web page, a text box for viewers, dropdowns and multi-selects, a date picker. They turn a dashboard from a display into something you can operate.
4. Interaction and actions: parameters, navigation, inserting rowsThe four mechanisms that make a dashboard move — dashboard parameters (pick a value, every chart filters), click-through to another dashboard or an external link carrying parameters, writing an input into a table, and showing the row after a submission.
5. Preview, share, publish and view countsSwitching between view and edit mode; the public dashboard, member invitation and public form inside Share, each with its permission switches, QR code and link refresh; and the view counts a published dashboard collects. Links need a server, which makes this a team-edition capability.
6. Taking a dashboard out: PNG and PDFAny single component downloads as a PNG, free. Whole-dashboard PDF and branded report templates are on the paid feature list. This page says what the current version actually does and how.