We’re delighted to give you a short update on our continued optimisations to Smartabase’s dashboard builder.

If you haven’t tried the dashboard builder yet, check out our helpful guide. We’ll show you how to set up dashboards, use dashboard components and understand the data being displayed within your dashboards.

Expect the 2.16 update to become available to you shortly.

Personalise tables with better support for avatars

Screenshot showing avatars within a table

Within the table widget you can now choose to replace the data for a column with an avatar. This means the data for that column will not appear when you use the avatar settings to enable the Show avatar only property.

Streamline use of your dashboards with more default settings

Screenshot showing an example of a dashboard with a default value set for the year selector.

If you have select boxes set up to filter data for other widgets, you’re now able to simplify the selection process for people who interact with your dashboard. The select box widget has a new property which allows you to specify a default selection.

When commonly used values exist in your organisation (such as viewing the data for the current year as in our example here), then you can streamline the dashboard experience by using those as the default selections.

Screenshot showing the default selection property for the select box widget

General improvements and bug fixes

  • We’ve updated the tooltip instructions provided when you name your dashboard. All characters are allowed except for " ' % $ | @ & ( ) { } [ ] : ; , / ?
  • You should no longer see null values appear as 0 on charts.
  • When you print charts, the gridlines are now included.
  • We resolved some errors that were caused when rounding values to more than 20 decimal places (20 is the maximum).
  • We fixed some issues that were caused by null values during filtering.
  • When you preview categorical charts, the stacking groups will update properly.

You can contact your lead builder if you have any questions about building dashboards or visit the dashboard builder guide. 

Highlights from the last dashboard builder update

In your last update we announced:

  • More ways for you to display dates within widgets.

If you missed it, you can read the last dashboard builder update here.