Dashboards are visual representations of data. Squirro supports extensive dashboarding functions, allowing you to have real-time visual representations of data as you search.
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Creating dashboards
To create a dashboard,
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Directly after creation, you are presented with a fresh dashboard, an empty widget and a configuration panel for it.
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Editing dashboards
To enter editing mode,
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You are now in editing mode.
Change title and query of dashboard
To change your dashboard's main query or title,
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Enter the title and query as desired.
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Once done, press the Save Changes button at the top to save your changes or press Cancel to abandon them.
Widgets
Widgets are the building blocks of a dashboard. Each widget represents data in a particular form. Currently, Squirro offers a number of built-in widgets, such as pie charts, time frequency graphs (line charts) and word clouds.
Widget types
The available widget types are listed on the page Widgets.
Add widget
To add a widget,
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Moving widgets
To move a widget,
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Editing widgets
To edit a widget,
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Deleting widgets
To delete a widget,
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Facet Value Formatting
It is possible to format the values of numerical and date facets to be displayed in the dashboard widgets.
To do so, one can define the facet formatting screen in the Facets management section of Squirro.
Formatting of numerical facets (of type int or float)
The string defined in 'Format' section will be used to display the facet values in Dashboarding. Any string can be used to that purpose, and a preview of the formatting is visible to the right of the format input field.
To inject the actual facet value into the resulting string, %d placeholder is used.
| Formatting String | Result for a facet value of 123456.789 |
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| %dEUR | 123456.789EUR |
| $%d | $123456.789 |
Additional formatting options are available for the %d placeholder, allowing to define the separator between each magnitude of 1000, as well as the symbol used to the floating point, in the case of values of float datatype.
| Formatting String | Result for a facet value of 123456.789 |
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| %'dEUR | 123'456.789EUR |
| %.,dEUR | 123.456,789EUR |
| %',dEUR | 123'456,789EUR |
It is also possible to specify the rounding precision of floating point values, after the floating point.
| Formatting String | Result for a facet value of 123456.789 |
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| %2dEUR | 123456.79EUR |
| %,1dEUR | 123456,8EUR |
| %',0dEUR | 123'457EUR |
Formatting of facets of type Date
To format facet values containing dates (and times), Squirro offers three formatting options, defined in the Facets configuration screen.
Each option is accompanied with a preview of the resulting formatted value.
Embedding and Sharing Dashboards
To share or embed the current dashboard,
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Dashboard URL API Reference
The URL which is generated by the Embed and Share options in the dashboard can be extended with additional options. The following URL parameters can be used to change the behavior of the dashboard.
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&created_after=2012-12-31
&created_after=2012-12-31T18:30:00
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&relative_start=2y
&relative_start=8w
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This page can now be found at Dashboards on the Squirro Docs site.