The full release of the Syncfusion Dashboard Platform has been a success. We’ve gathered feedback and questions from our beta testers and early adopters and created a webinar to help answer some of your most pressing questions. The most popular request, by far, has been for a setup and deployment demonstration.
In the recording below, Syncfusion VP Daniel Jebaraj demonstrates an implementation using Dashboard Platform. In this video, you’ll see how fast you can get from start to finish (or in this case–from data to distribution). At the end of this webinar we hosted a live Q&A with attendees, which we have included in the recording.
There were more questions than we had time for during the webinar, but we didn’t want those to go unanswered. We have expanded on a number of unanswered questions and included them below. If you have a question about the Syncfusion Dashboard Platform that wasn’t covered, contact us and we’ll get it answered for you.
Absolutely. Please refer to our documentation for more details.
No, currently we don’t have support for OpenID. However this is already on our to-do list and will be implemented in the future.
Please refer to our documentation that illustrates the simple ETL capabilities of the Syncfusion Dashboard Platform. We do not have a recorded webinar about them at this time.
This is currently not possible but it will be supported in the future.
You can order the value or measure for the grid and chart widgets. For other widgets, it will be supported in future releases.
Yes, you can create custom measures with the Expression Designer during data source design through the Dashboard Designer.
Yes, this is possible by configuring dashboard filters. Master-listener relationships can be established between widgets to control this behavior. Refer to our documentation for more information.
Currently this is not possible, but it will be supported in our upcoming release.
If Chart1 is marked as a master widget for all other widgets in a dashboard, then choosing from Chart1 will apply the filter to the other widgets. Please refer to our documentation for more details.
The Dashboard server can be installed on a Windows server (Windows Client OS 7+ or Windows Server OS 2008 R2+). It is also possible to host it as an Azure web application.
No, this is currently not possible. We actively add support for new widgets and will be happy to actively consider your request.
Yes. You can configure the date picker with relative dates such as the last 10 days, last week, etc.
Yes, please refer to this help topic.
Dashboards can be embedded in a system using the Dashboard Platform SDK. Refer to this help topic for more information.
Currently this is not possible, but it will be supported in our upcoming release.
Yes, we can enable linking in a widget to link to another dashboard. Please refer to our documentation for more information.
Currently this is not possible, but it will be supported in our upcoming release.
Yes, this is possible using the Dashboard Platform SDK.
This is currently not possible but it will be supported in the future.
No, active directory is not required. It is possible to create your own dashboard users with our built-in permission management system. That said, there is complete support for Active Directory if you need to integrate with it.
Currently, image is the only format available. We already have plans to expand to Excel, Word, and PowerPoint file formats. Most widgets already expose a layer that allows export to these formats.
A dashboard is a composition of one or more widgets. Each element on the dashboard like the charts and grids are widgets.
One low Annual fee. Global unlimited licenses cover everyone within your organization for one low annual fee.
End users can change filter values, date ranges, and groupings.
Currently, this is not possible but it will be supported in our upcoming release.
Yes, Azure is the only directly supported cloud option for now. There are however no issues publishing to AWS virtual servers running Windows. This is definitely a supported scenario for deployment.
Yes. Both the Dashboard Designer and Dashboard Server can be localized to a specific culture.
No, the Dashboard Platform is only supported on Windows. However, published dashboards can be viewed on any platform including Windows, Linux, OS X, Chrome OS, Android and iOS.
Yes. The date picker widget can be tied with the data column of type DateTime.
This is currently not possible but it will be supported in the future.
Please refer to this help topic.
Currently, this is not possible but this will be supported in our upcoming release.
Yes, users can select filters.
We do have support for combination charts. However, line vs. bar is not supported at the moment. This will be available in the future.
You may embed as an image. In fact this can be automated using our PowerPoint API.
Yes, the chart widget can be configured as a listener for filter widgets. Any filter value that is set will affect the displayed values on the chart.
Yes, you would need to embed our HTML5 dashboard viewer control within your website. There are no client-side requirements except for a modern web browser.
This is currently not possible but may be supported in the future. For full scale analysis requirements please consider our Big Data Platform. It supports extremely complex analysis and includes the complete Scientific Python stack on top of Apache Spark.
Yes. It will be responsive for desktop, tablet, and mobile views.
Currently this is not possible, but it will be supported in our upcoming release.
This area will have the published dashboard links that refer (link) to any of the widgets in the current dashboard. Double-clicking a dashboard will open it in a new designer instance for modification. Refer to this help topic to enable linking in a widget.
This is currently not possible but it will be supported in the future.
Yes. We are working on responsive support and mobile support for the Dashboard Server application and it will be available in the next release. You can also modify the views; however, they will be replaced if you install a later version.
This is currently not possible without using the SDK but it will be supported in the future.
This is currently not possible but it will be supported in the future.
SSAS cube data connection will be supported in our upcoming release. Tabular model data connection support will be considered in future releases.
Yes. The RESTful web service should have either basic or no authentication. OAuth authentication is not currently supported but we have plans to support it soon.
Please review our community license. It may be a fit for most such needs. The community license is completely free.
Yes, the Dashboard Designer, Dashboard Viewer, and Dashboard Server can be localized to German with culture files in the appropriate format. Please refer to the following links for more details: