Introduction to dashboard properties

Users of Dashboard Builder can incorporate a variety of visualization objects into Apama dashboards, which allow end users to visualize and interact with Apama DataViews. This part provides reference information on those objects intended for the visualization of complex data: graphs, tables, and trend charts. Each visualization object is covered in a section that includes a complete listing of the object’s properties.

Objects for complex-data visualization

This document covers the visualization objects contained in the following tabs of the Dashboard Builder Object Palette:

• Graphs: Bar graphs, heat maps, legends, pie graphs, radar graphs, and XY graphs. See Graph objects.
• Tables: Standard tables and rotated tables. See Table objects.
• Trends: Sparkline charts, stock charts, and trend graphs. See Trend objects.

There is also an appendix on the Drill Down Properties dialog, which sets a drill-down-related property for all graph, table, and trend objects. See Drill-down specification.

About the Object Properties window

To open the Object Properties window, select Edit | Object Properties… or click the Object Properties button on the toolbar. In the Object Properties window, you can view and edit the property values of an object selected in the Builder canvas area.

Editing property values

Property names listed in the first column of the Object Properties panel cannot be changed. Property values, listed in the second column, can be set to static values or attached to dynamic data.

Blue text signifies that a property value is static and cannot be attached to a dynamic data source.

Green text signifies that a property value is currently attached to a dynamic data source and therefore it is no longer possible to edit this value directly in the Object Properties panel. See Attaching dashboards to correlator data.

To remove a data attachment and restore the ability to edit property values directly in the Object Properties panel, right-click on the property name and select Detach from Data from the popup menu. An object property has been detached from the data source when the property name and value are no longer green.

Copying and pasting property values

Copying and pasting makes it easy to transfer property values from one object to another.

There are two options for copying object properties:

• Copy all properties: To copy all object properties, both static properties and data attachments, select an object and click the copy button on the toolbar.
• Copy single property: To copy an individual property from the Object Properties window, right-click on the property name and select Copy. To copy a property from the Edit Function dialog, right-click in a text field and select Copy.

There are four options for pasting object properties:

• Paste data attachments: To paste only data attachments, select one or more objects and click on the paste data attachments button on the toolbar or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+V.

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  Only properties common to both objects are pasted onto the selected object or objects.

• Paste static properties: To paste only the static properties, select one or more objects and click on the paste static properties button on the toolbar.

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  Only properties common to both objects are pasted onto the selected object or objects.

• Paste all properties: To paste all properties, select one or more objects and click on the paste all properties button on the toolbar. This pastes all static properties as well as all data attachments.

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  Only properties common to both objects are pasted onto the selected object or objects.

• Paste single property: To paste an individual property into the Object Properties window, right-click on the property name and select Paste. The Paste option is enabled only if the copied attribute can be set on the selected property (data attachments, for example, cannot be pasted onto static properties). To paste a property in the Edit Function dialog, right-click in a text field and select Paste.