The SAXT Dashboard feature allows a user to create a personalized view into the architecture through the addition of widgets that show tables, charts, and lists of links.
Adding widgets
New widgets can be added to your dashboard by clicking the Add Widget button. Options for the available widget types are described below.
•Report widgets Report widgets can use the queries saved using XT Query Builder feature (see Creating and building questions/queries) and can be displayed as a table or chart on your dashboard. Report widgets can also produce output from encyclopedias other than the currently open encyclopedia by changing the Target Encyclopedia setting and entering the connections details. Under the Appearance settings, you can edit your widget title, and choose whether the default view should be a table or chart.
•Links widgets Links widgets allow you to add a shortcut to the four link type options that are built into SAXT. These link types are:
My Queries A list of Private queries created use XT Query Builder, those queries are seen only by the current user
Shared Queries A list of Shared Queries created using XT Query Builder, those queries are shared by all users
Bookmarks A list of links to URLs inside the SAXT application, such as links to favorite Reports, Diagram, Definitions, or functions.
External Links A list of links to External websites (URLs outside of the SAXT application).
•Diagram widgets Diagram widgets can display a preview image of the diagram selected. You can use the Target settings to determine which encyclopedia it is available from. When created, clicking on the Diagram Widget will open to the Diagram Viewer page in SAXT.
•Pivot Table widgets Pivot Table widgets can use the queries saved using XT Query Builder feature (see Creating and building questions/queries) and can be displayed as an interactive table. Using the query’s selected properties, users can drag property types to be set as columns or rows. The Pivot Table also provides several features beyond a regular Report Table in that results can be filtered out, an Aggregator dropdown is available to make certain calculations of the results, and a Renderer dropdown is available to display the data in different ways including various chart styles or table heat-maps. These selections can be saved so that table will appear the same with each visit.
Arranging widgets
After widgets have been added to the dashboard, they can be moved by dragging the heading bar to a new location. Widgets can also be resized by dragging the lower right corner to expand or shrink as desired. When widget size or location has changed, click the Save Layout button that appears in the upper right corner of the dashboard to save changes.
Editing widgets
A Setting dropdown icon is shown in the upper-right corner of each widget that gives the user options for editing the existing widget. There are options to change the Appearance such as Title and Default View, or to Remove the widget.
Report widgets allow additional editing of the chart display. When in Chart view, there are additional settings found by clicking the chart menu found to the upper-left to expand display options. Users can set the color scheme, default type, number of values, and which column to report on. After making changes to the chart options, the user must click the Save icon to save the settings as the default.
Using tabs
You can create multiple dashboard views by using tabs on the Dashboard page. When a user click the Add Tab button, a new empty dashboard tab is created and new widgets can be added. To change the tab order, click on the tab title and hold the mouse and drag the tab to its new location. Click Save Layout to save the new tab location. Users can Rename or Delete the tab by using the dropdown icon next to the active tab.