Creating simple widgets

This guide explains how to create simple widgets.

Introduction

A widget is an individual element on a dashboard. Use Data Explorer to create table and chart (visualization) widgets based on your data. You can also add image, video, and text widgets to your dashboard.

In Data Explorer, you create and edit widgets in a view. Only views that are added to a dashboard as a widget are saved.

Prerequisites

Before you complete the procedure in this guide, perform all of the following actions:

Procedure

To create widgets, follow these steps:

  1. Select the workspace you work with in Adverity and then, in the platform navigation menu, click Data Explorer.

  2. Next to the View tabs at the top of the page, click Create new view.

  3. From the Dimensions & Metrics list on the left, select a dimension.

  4. From the Dimensions & Metrics list on the left, select a metric.

  1. To create a visualization, in the data table, click on one of the values in the metric column to see visualization options. Select the set of values to form the visualization data set.

As a result, you see a table and a chart widget based on your data.

For more information about creating widgets, see Selecting data to add to a widget.