Components give you the ability to add different functions to your dashboard, such as charts and grids, images, or links to external web pages. You can create any number of components by dragging them from the component toolbar into your View and configuring them using their context menu or the Property panel.

In Dashboard Designer, the following components are available:

• Charts: Provide a graphic representation of your data. Many chart types are available, and they can be converted to other chart types.

• Grids: Present your metric or record data in table format and give users another way to explore the data. Use alert grids to configure alerts or view the generated alert messages; use a marker grid to view defined data markers.

• Process components: Use multiple charts and a grid to visually present process data. The component types include Swimlane, Process Chart, Process Step Chart, and Process Grid.

• Filters: Allow users to select different filtering values for your data, prompting the targeted charts or grids to display only the relevant subset of data.

• Text: Add static words to your dashboard to describe content or to display dynamic text-based data.

• Images: Add an image from a file, a URL, or dynamically retrieve data from a selected record. Image components also have the same options to respond to mouse clicks as the Button component. Use an Image component to associate a picture with an action.

• Buttons: Add interactivity to your dashboard. By itself, a button carries standard functions such as print, report, or logout. Alternatively, the button can also be coupled with a View Holder to create dynamic content within a View.

• View Holder: Reuse previously created Views by placing them inside one another. The area on which you design is a View and all components can only exist in a View.

• Menu: Combined with a View Holder, provide a way for users to navigate among Views. Menu items can also activate functions such as bringing up the Bookmarks page, printing the current page or report, resetting all filters, or other actions.

• Search Panel: Allow the user to filter a set of records using a component that can display any or all fields in a record, or filter on any subset of fields. The Search Panel works with record displays such as a Record Grid and Scatter Chart.

• Record Form: Provide an alternate way to display a record. A record grid is useful for displaying multiple records in a set of rows. A record form is useful for displaying a single record. The fields can be laid out in a form rather than being displayed horizontally in a grid.

• Line: Add a UI line to the view to visually separate the components.

• File uploader: Provide an ability to upload data to the record from an Excel file directly in the Viewer.

• Reports self-subscription: Allow the user to subscribe to any report to which access is given.

• Language selection: Switch the language in the viewer.