Introduction: Canvas Dashboard
This is a beta feature that's subject to additional functionalities and iterative changes.
To get access, register your interest here: Canvas Dashboard Early Interest Form.
What is Canvas Dashboard?
Canvas Dashboard is one type of Holistics Analytics Page. It’s a curated collection of interactive Analytics Blocks on a blank canvas.
With Canvas Dashboard, you have greater control over the presentation of information. You can easily develop a wide range of presentations to satisfy your reporting needs, from executive dashboards, narrative reports and beyond.
Canvas Dashboard also incorporates Analytics As-code power, which enables declarative as-code definition, version control, and reusability.
Differences between Canvas dashboard and Dashboard 3.0
| Canvas Dashboard | Dashboard 3.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Development | ||
| Layout | Freely arrange visualizations, texts, filters, etc. anywhere on Canvas | Visualizations, texts are arranged onto a fixed-size grids. Filters and dashboard controls are always on top |
| As-code definition | Declarative AML as-code definition | Not supported |
| Reusability | Inherit AML’s reusability | Not supported |
| Version control | Version control with Git integration | Not supported |
| Development experience | Develop dashboard in Modeling layer Changes are applied after deploying to production | Develop dashboard in Reporting layer Changes are automatically applied |
| View & Interaction | ||
| Responsiveness & Scaling | Keep the dashboard ratio. Allow users to zoom in/out the dashboard to fit their screen. Control the size of canvas in pixels | Auto-resize the dashboard to fit the users’ screen. Dashboards look differently in different screens |
| Dashboard controls: Filters, Period Comparison, Date Drills | Place anywhere within dashboard Support easy reset to default values | Always stay on top of dashboard Manually reset to default values |
| Cross-filtering | Support ability to selectively apply/exclude cross-filtering to a subset of visualizations Cross-filtering triggers when click on Apply controls | When enabled, cross-filtering is applied to the whole dashboard (among visualizations using the same datasets) Cross-filtering automatically triggers on click |
| Drill-through | Coming soon in Q2 2024 | Support Drill-through between multiple Dashboard 3.0 |
| Export | Export dashboard: Support export as PNG/PDF Export visualizations: Coming soon in Q2 2024 | Export dashboard: Support export as PNG/PDF Export visualizations: Support export as PDF/Excel/csv |
| Data Schedules | Coming soon in Q2 2024 | Support send to Email / Slack / Google Sheets / SFTP |
| Data Alerts | Support send alerts to Email / Slack / Webhook | |
| Embedded Analytics | Support create Embed Link in Dashboard Preferences | |
| Explore data from dashboards | Admin, Analyst, and Explorer can explore a visualization in a dashboard, but CANNOT save the exploration results | Admin, Analyst, and Explorer can explore a visualization in a dashboard, and save the exploration results to another dashboard |
| Private dashboards | Not available yet | Admin, Analyst, and Explorer can create new dashboards in private workspace |
FAQs
How can I get access to the Canvas Dashboard?
Canvas Dashboard is in Beta development phase. To get access:
- Ensure you are using Version 4.0. Check your current version here
- Sign up for the beta program by filling out the form: Canvas Dashboard Early Interest Form
We're currently using Dashboard 3.0. What will happen to our existing dashboards when we gain access to the Canvas dashboard?
There will be no changes. All existing Dashboard 3.0 remain unaffected. You can continue to create new Dashboard 3.0 in the Reporting layer as usual.