Create your first Excel Dashboard
In the previous article (Launch Dashboard Designer and Connect to Excel) we saw how to launnch Dashboard designer and connect to Excel file.
We continue building our dashboard
Create your first Dashboard
- Click on the “New Dashboard” button (yellow highlight)
- Enter the desired dashboard name (green highlight)
- Click OK (blue highlight) – It creates an empty dashboard as shown below
Add content to your new Dashboard
Syntax for Querying Excel Worksheets
- Each worksheet in Excel file is treated like a SQL table
- The worksheet is referenced as [worksheet name$]
- You can perform normal SQL selects on this table
Your first Portlet (Qlet )
Lets create the first portlet
We will show the complete file in the portlet using below query
“Select * from [detail_data$]
{detail data is one of the worksheet in the test_data.xls file}
- Click on the “New Qlet” button or select Create à Query Portlet from Menu bar
- In the property window as shown above, enter the Qlet Name
- Select the Connection
- Enter you query in the text editor
- Click on the Apply button
Portlet Customizations
Once your portlet is visible, you can change the cosmetic features such as colors and fonts, increase/decrease column widths, change the location of the portlet and resize the portlet.
We just changed the column colors.
Next we build a summary table portlet -> Create summary view portlets from Excel Data
8 Responses to “Create your first Excel Dashboard”
this is not a dashboard. This is a view of a bunch of data. A dashboard gets you to a simple visual where you can see the critical few points within a set of data.
This view tells me nothing and is a precurser to an actual dashboard which would then have correct visual displays.
By Laras on Jan 7, 2009