Smartabase’s dashboard builder has some handy new features, which we’re pleased to let you know about.

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 2.18 update to become available to you shortly.

Filter which select box options appear

You’re now able to use select box widgets, date picker widgets or custom values to filter which options are available in a select box widget. This means you can, for example, choose a training phase and then a specific session type from within that phase, as in our example below.

A screenshot showing an example of select box widget filtering in action

Add custom gridlines to your XY scatter charts

Help people understand the distribution of data that you’re displaying in an XY scatter chart widget with the addition of custom gridlines. You can choose to add gridlines to the X and Y axes and, additionally, specify how the gridline should be placed based on an aggregated value or according to a custom value you set in the chart properties.

A screenshot example of custom gridlines set in an XY scatter chart

Customise the placeholder text for tiles with no available data

You can now choose what message should display when there is no information available to display in a tile widget. For example, when a tile is set up to display a daily status but the information required to calculate status hasn’t been entered by the players yet, you can ask people to check back later.

An example screenshot showing a customised tile message when no data is available for display

General improvements and bug fixes

Not a lot to report this time around!

  • We improved the sidebar so you can edit chart series, chart gridlines, chart regions and table columns more easily. 
  • You can set table widget printing behaviour so that all pages from a table will be included when someone chooses to print the dashboard. 
  • When you print a dashboard, any XY scatter chart widgets will resize to fit correctly.

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

Highlights from your last dashboard builder newsletter

In your last newsletter we announced:

  • Explore your data with the new radar chart widget  
  • More options for customising widget titles and subtitles

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