Dundas Dashboard Data Visualization Controls

Display Indicators

Present your KPI as text or in a numerical display

Display indicators digitally represent various physical display devices used in the real world (segmented LED displays, clocks, odometers, LCD displays, etc).  Previously an enhancement for gauge applications, the Dundas Dashboard Display Indicator is now its own powerful control.

The Dundas Dashboard Display Indicator shows numbers (measures), text and dates (annotations) while offering tremendous flexibility for customization and changing appearances, including individual characters.  Customization is based on the data type, so for example, with numbers, you can choose digit and decimal colors independently.  A wide variety of style and modes are available, as well as support for out-of-range settings.

Display styles:

• 7-Segment display
• 14-Segment display
• Basic font

General Features:

• Supports both numeric digits and alphanumeric characters
• Supports numeric, date, time and text values
• Number, date and time values can be formatted.
• Automatic character sizing
• Various appearance customizations (borders, background, characters, layout, text alignment, etc.) available
• Numeric display options to control appearance and behavior
• Number of decimal places
• Appearance of digits/decimals
• Numeric ranges
• Multipliers
• Tooltip support for keywords

State Indicator

State indicators are highly effective visual tools that can be activated once the data reaches a single or multiple thresholds.  For example, when tracking stocks, a default marker could be a green element, but if the stock dips below a certain value, the element turns red.  They can also appear as animated traffic lights, "thumbs up/down" images, a light on a console, text that says "danger," etc.  With Dundas Dashboard, users can thoroughly customize their state indicators and build them into scorecards, charts and more. They can also be used on their own, without being embedded into another data visualization control for added flexibility.

Dundas offers a range-type of state indicator, where the user defines from-to ranges on the number line along with an appearance setting that is shown if the value falls within a given range.

Several types of visuals are available right out of the box:

• Markers - similar to electronic LEDs, they come in a variety of shapes, sizes and are heavily styled.  The style of the marker can change based on the state of the value property.
• Images - use any image loaded from a file or URL.
• Text - the content can be changed, as well as colored and sized, based on the current state
• Custom - all of the above visualizations come from a base appearance class which is a content presenter.  If you want to build your own, you can create your own custom implementation or simply change the value in the "content" property.

Traffic Light Indicator

Display the state of your KPIs with (actual realistic-looking) traffic-light controls

With Dundas Dashboard, we've continued our tradition of providing the industry's most compelling visualizations. This extends to our unique traffic-light control, which has received stirring reviews since the dashboarding platform was first launched.

Dundas offers a range-type of state indicator, where the user defines from-to ranges on the number line along with an appearance setting that is shown if the value falls within a given range.

The Dundas Dashboard Traffic Light control offers 9 overall styles with many options for lights, giving you hundreds of combinations for the control's appearance. In addition, it offers:

• Support for three KPI states
• Horizontal and vertical styles
• Text - the content can be changed, as well as colored and sized, based on the current state
• Animation support (a flashing light)

Legend

When building software components, legends are often neglected - but not with Dundas Dashboard.  We recognize the importance of ensuring you can clearly decipher your data and legends are an important part of that process.

The Dundas Dashboard Legend is designed to work with and support any of the data visualization controls (chart, gauge, etc).  Highlights include its ability to toggle the visibility of a chart series, gauge pointer - or any other control element that appears on the legend - by simply clicking on a checkbox beside the legend item.  The legend also has the capacity to group items into categories separated by titles.  Other features include scrollbars, for when there is not enough space for the legend items, as well as the ability to add a custom legend items that are not tied to controls and allow you to specify your own marker color, shape and text.  In addition, legend items:

• Legend items from multiple charts and gauges can all be added to a single legend
• Can be organized horizontally, vertically or in a table
• Can be added by controls automatically or be added manually in the dashboard designer
• Identical legend items can be merged into a single legend item (even if they are from different charts/gauges)
• Third-party controls can also make use of the legend (the API makes this possible)

Tree Map

Technically speaking, Dundas's innovative Tree Map control displays tree-structured (hierarchical) data as a group of nested rectangles. It's an effective way to show, for example, sales performance by region or energy consumption by region. A change in color will show if goals are being met.

The Dundas Dashboard Tree Map control boast multiple data distribution types (e.g., equal interval, equal distribution or data range) and supports:

• Drill down
• Key words
• Hover over
• Tooltips
• Font auto-coloring