Creating and formatting widgetsThe following list briefly summarizes each type of widget that you can use in a document. Details to create and format each widget are in the Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide.

 

Bubble Grid: The Bubble Grid widget contains metric values that are plotted as bubbles of different colors and sizes; the colors and sizes of the bubbles represent the values of two distinct metrics on the Grid\Graph.

Cylinder: The Cylinder widget displays a vertical cylinder with fluid in it. The level of the fluid within the cylinder is a visual representation of a single metric value.

Data Cloud: The Data Cloud widget consists of a list of attribute elements. The font size of each attribute element represents a metric value for that element. These metric values represent the values of the first metric on the Grid/Graph.

Date Selection: A calendar selector that allows you to select which dates you want to see data about in a dashboard. You are able to see all of the dates of each month in the widget, which makes selecting dates easier.

Fish Eye: The Fish Eye Selector magnifies an item when you hover the cursor over it. It allows you to choose from a large list of attribute elements, metrics, or images without having to see all of the elements, metrics, or images.

Funnel: The Funnel widget can be used for a wide variety of business purposes, including application management, click management, pipeline analyses for sales forecasts, and sales process analysis.

Gauge: The Gauge widget displays a needle that moves within a range of numbers displayed on its outside edges. An example of a gauge is a car's speedometer.

Graph Matrix: The new Graph Matrix widget allows you to display data using different graph types, format the graphs, then slice the data to customize the display of the widget. To create a Graph Matrix widget, create a Visual Insight analysis with a Graph Matrix visualization, then convert the analysis to a document.

Graph Matrix (deprecated): The Graph Matrix widget displays actual values. Each area graph also has a line graph above it to show forecasted values. One graph is displayed for every combination of elements from the attributes on the Grid\Graph's rows and columns.

Heat Map: The Heat Map widget combination of colored rectangles, each representing an attribute element, that allow you to quickly grasp the state and impact of a large number of variables at once.

Image Viewer: Analysts can use the Image Viewer widget to display images, view image descriptions, and zoom in and out of images on a mobile device.

Interactive Bubble Graph: The Interactive Bubble Graph widget allows you to visualize the trends of three different metrics for a set of attribute elements.

Interactive Grid for mobile devices: The Interactive Grid widget allows you to display data in a compact tabular layout on a mobile device.

Interactive Stacked Graph: The Interactive Stacked Graph widget is a combination of a check box list and area graph. The graph allows a user to see the contribution of various metric series to the change in value of a larger set of data.

Map for mobile devices: The Map widget allows users to search and view information for locations on a map displayed on a mobile device.

Media: The Media widget allows you to present a variety of media, such as video, audio, images, or website content, on your dashboard. You can include media in the widget to provide background information about data or instructions on how to use the dashboard.

Microcharts: The Microcharts widget conveys information in such a way that the user can, at a glance, determine the trend of a metric over time or how a metric is performing compared to forecasted figures.

Multimedia for mobile devices: You can allow users to browse and view a variety of different documents, such as text files, PDF files, and images, using the Multimedia widget.

RSS Reader: The RSS Reader widget helps provide a 360-degree view of your business by allowing you to compare and contrast data in your dashboard with information from external news feed sources.

Thermometer: The Thermometer widget displays a thermometer set to a certain temperature level. The temperature level within the thermometer is a visual representation of a single metric value.

Timeline for mobile devices: You can display changes in the status of multiple business assets, as well as important events affecting each asset, using the Timeline widget.

Time Series Slider: The Time Series Slider widget allows a document analyst to choose which section of the graph to view at a time.

Time Series for mobile devices: The Time Series widget allows you to display data over a specific period of time as a line graph on a mobile device.

Waterfall: The Waterfall widget consists of a group of clustered bars displayed from left to right. The X-axis contains either attribute elements or metrics, depending on where the attributes and metrics are placed on the Grid/Graph in Design Mode or Editable Mode. The Y-axis displays a range of values based on the metrics on the Grid/Graph.

Weighted List Viewer: The Weighted List Viewer widget provides attribute and metric values with threshold colors applied to them from top to bottom. The color bands on the grid reflect the range of values of the first metric on the Grid/Graph. The stacked contribution bar graph on the left that depicts the relative contribution or percent-to-total calculation of a metric. This bar reflects the values of the second metric on the Grid/Graph.