Dashboards

A dashboard is an application page made of widgets: each one measures an entity's records and shows it as a number or a chart. The numbers are worked out over every record, however many there are.

Widgets

• Indicator — a single number, like the total sold or how many orders are still open.
• Bars — one measure per group, or up to three side by side on the same axis.
• Line — a measure across the groups, best for dates by day, week, month or year; up to three measures.
• Radar — an axis per group, with up to three measures as outlines.
• Pie and donut — each group's share of the whole; the donut shows the total in its middle. Past six groups, the smallest gather into Other when the measure is a count or a sum.
• Polar area — wedges of the same width that grow with their value: one twice as big looks twice as big.
• Scatter — a dot per record by two number fields, colored by a field when one is chosen; three colors at most and the rest in gray. Up to 500 records are drawn.

What a widget measures

• Measures — count records, or the sum, average, minimum or maximum of a number, a unit of measurement or a number formula. A record without the number doesn't count toward the average, minimum or maximum.
• Group by — an option, a checkbox, a related record, a user, the state or who created or changed the record; a date groups by day, week (from Monday), month or year, in the application's time zone. Records without a value make the No value group.
• Filters — the same as tables'; Me is whoever looks at the dashboard, so one dashboard shows each person their own.
• Spans two columns — the widget stretches across the dashboard.

Each chart has Show table with its numbers, and hovering, or focusing with the keyboard, a bar, a dot or a wedge shows its value.

Good to know

• A widget measures one entity, the dashboard's.
• Fields holding many values, and a dialog's fields, don't group.
• A widget whose fields are gone says it couldn't be measured; it's fixed in the dashboard's settings.