Springboard Tutorials

What are dashboards?

Dashboards allow you to create shareable custom pages that provide a broad overview of the library's metrics. Dashboards can be used internally, or you can create public-facing dashboards to give your community real-time insight into the usage of their library's services.

Creating and setting up a dashboard

The first steps for building your dashboard are to create it and do the initial setup of the basic fields (name, description, friendly URL, etc.). 

• Creating a dashboard
  Learn how to create and run through the initial set up a dashboard.
• Customizing a dashboard's name & description
  Learn how to customize the name and description of your dashboard.
• Customizing a dashboard's friendly URL
  Learn how to set the friendly URL of your dashboard.
• Configuring a dashboard's permissions
  Learn how to set the editing permissions for your dashboard.
• Making a dashboard public or private
  Learn how to change the visiblity of your dashboard.

Managing and editing dashboards

After you've created your dashboard and done the initial setup, the real work begins. Each dashboard consists of charts to visualize data from one or more datasets in your system. That allows you to have one row highlighting your circulation statistics, the next row showing a breakdown of your E-Resources, and a third row showing the gate count totals for each branch of your library.

• Adding & managing content on a dashboard
  Learn how to add content to your dashboard -- including the selection of the datasets being used and the charts displaying the data.
• Adding custom CSS and JavaScript code to a dashboard
  Learn how to customize the look of your dashboard with custom code.
• Previewing a dashboard
  Learn how to preview your dashboard while it's in development.
• Publishing & sharing a dashboard
  Learn how to publish your dashboard.