Dashboard designer

The Dashboard designer is the visual workspace for building dashboards. You can organize dashboards in folders, place controls anywhere on the canvas, configure their behavior, and make layouts for different screen sizes.

Left menu

The left menu has three tabs:

Tab	What you can do
Dashboards	Create and open dashboards, organize them in folders, and move dashboards between folders. The active dashboard also shows its available layouts.
Toolbox	Choose controls to place on the canvas, including charts, tables, text, inputs, and layout containers. See the control library.
Structure	Find and select controls by name or ID in a tree of the active layout.

In Structure, a lightning icon marks a control with configured events or actions; a link icon marks a control linked to another control. You can temporarily hide controls while editing, which is useful when they overlap. Selecting a control in the tree also selects it on the canvas.

When you edit an additional layout, the Toolbox shows controls from the root layout. Reuse those controls in a new arrangement for the selected screen size. See Pages & layout for layout behavior.

Toolstrip and canvas

The toolstrip above the canvas provides editing and layout actions.

Actions	What they do
Save, Help, Changes, Undo, Redo, Settings	Save the dashboard, view shortcuts and change history, reverse or reapply a change, and open designer settings.
Copy and Paste	Duplicate selected controls.
Move Forward, Move Backward, Move To Front, Move To Back	Change the visual stacking order when controls overlap.
Align Left, Right, Top, Bottom, Vertical Center, Horizontal Center	Align multiple selected controls on the canvas.

The Interactive Designer shows the active dashboard layout inside a rectangular workspace. Click a control to highlight it and open its settings. The canvas and Structure tab stay in sync, so you can work visually or locate a control by name or ID.

Editing menu

The editing menu changes with the selected dashboard, layout, or control. Each control type exposes its own settings.

Section	Purpose
Layout	Arrange controls and configure the dashboard layout. Available at dashboard level.
Properties	Edit dashboard or control settings; see dashboard properties and the individual controls.
Messaging	Configure user-facing success, error, warning, and status messages.
Events	Add one or more actions to an event such as a click, load, or value change.
Action Flow	Build dashboard logic and action execution. Available at dashboard level; see Logic.
Parameters	Configure incoming parameters and fixed filters; see Parameters.
Plugins	Enable and configure dashboard extensions; see Plugins.

Below the canvas, the Footer provides supporting tools such as Pareto definitions and stylesheets.