Canvas Dashboard
Canvas Dashboard is now in public beta!
Customers signed up after April 22, 2024 will automatically have access to this feature. If you don’t see the Canvas Dashboard in your account, please sign up here: Canvas Dashboard Early Interest Form.
Introduction
Canvas Dashboard helps you create versatile and interactive data presentations. You can combine and customize visualizations, interactive control, and text elements to for various purposes, including executive dashboards, narrative reports, and operational monitoring. Here are the key features of Holistics Canvas Dashboard:
Canvas Layout: Build dashboards that match your narrative with visualizations, filters, and texts as your building blocks. Add, remove, and rearrange blocks on blank canvas with pixel-perfect precision.
Definition As Code: Define your dashboard as code in AMQL for version control with Git integration, reusable components, and bulk editing at scale.
Dedicated Development Space: Build dashboards in Modeling layer and deploy your dashboards to production, while preventing in-progress changes disrupt end-users experience.
Analytics Blocks in Canvas Dashboard
Canvas Dashboard contains a collection of Analytics Blocks on a plain canvas. There are three analytics block types: Text, Visualization, and Interactive Controls (such as Filters, Period Comparisons, and Date Drills). Together, analytics blocks allow you to present, engage with, and enhance the context of your data in a robust way.
Text Block
Text blocks allow you to incorporate context and information to your Canvas Dashboard. They are Markdown-supported, which should serve your most common formatting requirements. For more information, you can refer to Text widget.
Visualization Block
Visualization blocks allow you to add basic visualizations and custom charts to Canvas Dashboard. Each block contain a single visualization. A canvas dashboard can have multiple visualization blocks created from different datasets. For more information, you can refer to Visualizations.
Control Block
Interactive Control blocks include Filters, Period Comparisons, and Date Drills that can be used to manipulate data and add interactivity to your Canvas Dashboard. For more information, you can refer to Filter, Period Comparison, Date Drill.
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
What’s the difference 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: Support export as PDF/Excel/csv | |
| Data Schedules | 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 |
We're currently using Dashboard 3.0. What will happen to our existing dashboards when we gain access to 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.