Dashboard Item - Gauges

The Gauge dashboard item displays a series of KPI elements (gauges). Each gauge can communicate two values - one with a needle and the other with a marker on the scale. It allows you to measure progress toward a goal / KPI.

The image below shows a sample Gauge dashboard item that is bound to data.

The gauge data binding scheme is the following. If there is no series, only one gauge element (CircularGauge or LinearGauge objects) corresponds to each data item container’s Gauge. When you add series, the number of gauge elements is multiplied by the number of series values. For example, if a series contains three values, each Gauge has three gauge elements:

To bind the Gauge dashboard item to data, click a placeholder contained in one of the available data sections and select the required data source field in the Binding section of the invoked data item menu.

The table below lists and describes the Gauge’s data sections.

Gauges allow you to display the difference between the actual and target values of a particular parameter. This difference is called delta.

Delta is shown with a delta indicator (indicating whether the actual value is less than or greater than the target value) and delta values (representing this difference as an absolute value or a variation).

After you add the data item containing actual data, you can add the second data item (optional) that contains target data. To customize settings that relate to the calculation and display of deltas, open the Delta Options section of the data item menu.

Use it to define the conditions for displaying delta indication, specify which delta values should be displayed, and introduce the comparison tolerance. The following options are available.

By default, the Gauge dashboard item automatically determines the range of the gauge scales based on the values they display.

You can override this behavior and specify maximum and minimum values on the scale. After you add the data item, open the Scale Options section of the data item menu to customize the gauge scale.

Then, set the minimum/maximum value mode to Custom and specify this value in the corresponding field. The image below shows a gauge with a minimum value of 1B and maximum 5B.

To enable interaction between the Gauge and other dashboard items, you can use the interactivity features, as Master Filtering and Drill-Down.

You can use the Gauge dashboard item as a filter for other dashboard items.

To enable Master Filtering, go to the Gauge’s Interactivity menu and select the required Master Filtering mode.

To reset filtering, use the Clear Master Filter button (the  icon) in the Gauge’s caption.

The built-in drill-down capability allows end-users to change the detail level of data displayed in dashboard items on the fly. To learn more about drill-down concepts common to all dashboard items, see the Drill-Down topic.

When drill-down is enabled, an end-user can click a gauge to view the details.

Drill-down requires that the Series section contains several dimensions at the top, from the least detailed to the most detailed dimension.

To enable Drill-Down, go to the Gauge’s Interactivity menu and turn the Drill-Down option on.

To return to the previous detail level, click the Drill Up button (the  icon) in the Gauge’s caption.

The Gauge dashboard item allows you to specify the number of columns or rows by which gauges are arranged. For example, the following image shows gauges arranged into 3 columns.

To control how gauges are arranged, use the Layout section in the Gauge’s Options menu.

The following modes are available:

The Gauge dashboard item allows you to select the gauge style.

The following types are supported:

To select the gauge style, use buttons located in the Style section of the Gauge’s Options menu.