Governed Dashboards
  • About Dashboard Designer
    • What is Dashboard Designer?
    • Why is it used?
  • Getting Started
    • Accessing the Designer Module
    • Overview of Designer Module
      • Homepage
        • Guided Tour
        • Left Menu Panel
          • New
          • Manage
          • Open Dashboard
          • Preferences
          • Save As
          • Help
          • Exit
      • Dashboard Canvas Page
        • Right side Panel
          • Connection Page
          • Chart Container
          • Manage Window
          • Script Window
          • Guided Tour
        • Canvas Properties
          • Global Properties
          • Dashboard Themes
        • Context Menu Properties
  • Create New Workspace
    • Workspace Creation: Complete Flow
    • Creating a Workspace
    • Renaming a Workspace
    • Deleting a Workspace
  • Create New Dashboard
    • Dashboard Creation: Basic Workflow
    • Adding a New Dashboard
    • Create Connection
    • Drag and Drop Charts
    • Associate the Dataset
    • Preview the Dashboard
    • Save the Dashboard
    • User Alert Notification
  • Managing Options for a Dashboard
    • Open Dashboard in Designer
    • Publish a Dashboard
    • Share a Dashboard
    • Dashboard Version Control
    • Action Menu
      • Preview Dashboard
      • Export to Local Disk
      • Rename
      • Delete
      • Moving a Dashboard
      • Information Icon
      • Dashboard as Template
  • Connecting to a Data Source
    • Accessing the Data Connectors
    • Establishing a Data Connection
      • CSV Connection
      • Excel Connection
      • Data Service Connection
      • Data Store Connection
      • Data Sheet Connection
        • Data Sheet Enhancements
      • WebSocket Connection
      • Merged Connection
  • Charts Gallery
    • Charts
      • Area chart
      • Bar Chart
      • Bubble Chart
      • Circumplex Chart
      • Column Chart
      • Funnel Chart
      • Histogram Chart
      • Inverted Funnel
      • KPI Tile
      • Line Chart
      • Map Chart
      • Mito Plot
      • Mixed Chart
      • Pie Chart
      • Project Timeline
      • Pyramid Chart
      • Scatter Plot
      • Spark Line
      • Spider Chart
      • Waterfall Chart
    • Grids
      • Data Grid
      • Paging Grid
      • Data Sheet
      • Scorecard
      • Pivot Grid
    • Filters
      • Checkbox
      • Combobox
      • Hierarchical Combobox
      • List
      • Radio Button
    • Advanced Charts
      • Box Plot
      • Candle Stick
      • Chevron
      • Data Search
      • Decision Tree
      • Group Bar
      • Group Column
      • Heat Map
      • Sankey
      • Text Analyzer
      • Time Series
      • Decomposition
      • Knowledge Graph
      • Tree Map
      • Trellis
      • Word Cloud
      • New Word Cloud
    • Other Charts
      • Box
      • Bullet
      • Date Picker
      • Export
      • Filter Chips
      • Filter Saver
      • Gauge
      • Graphics
      • Guided Tour
      • H-Slider
      • Image
      • Info Button
      • Input Box
      • Label
      • Legend
      • Progress Pie
      • Semi Gauge
      • Stepper
      • SVG Image
      • Text Box
      • Trend
      • URL Button
      • V-Slider
      • Tab Component
      • Inputbox component
      • Button component
    • Custom Charts
    • Common Chart Properties
      • Background
      • Title & Sub-title
      • X & Y Axis Properties
      • Legend Properties
      • Formatter
      • Axis Setup
      • Export Options
      • Copy Paste Chart Properties
  • Dashboard Objects
    • Manage Dashboard Components
    • Dashboard Objects Properties
  • Configurations
    • Filtering the Data
    • Drill Through
      • Drill Highlighter
    • Dataset Properties
    • Indicators in Charts
    • Tooltip(Default & Custom)
    • Data Label
    • Geo Mapping
    • Language Mapping
    • Legend Mapping
    • Alerts in Grids
  • Script Help Section
    • Navigate to Script Help page
    • How to use Scripts?
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  • Accessing the Global Properties Icon
  • Various Global Properties
  • Enable Global Property for Background
  • Enable Global Property for Title
  • Enable Global Property for Sub Title
  • Enable Global Property for X Axis
  • Enable Global Property for Y Axis
  • Enable Global Property for Legend
  • Enable Global Property for Formatter
  1. Getting Started
  2. Overview of Designer Module
  3. Dashboard Canvas Page
  4. Canvas Properties

Global Properties

Align appearance of various dashboard components from one place by using the Global level properties for a dashboard.

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The Global Properties feature in the Dashboard canvas empowers users to apply appearance properties at the dashboard level. These properties facilitate the seamless alignment of various dashboard components, ensuring a consistent and visually harmonious display.

Accessing the Global Properties Icon

  • Navigate to a Dashboard within its canvas framework.

  • Use right-click to get the Dashboard context menu.

  • Click the Properties option from the context menu.

  • The Dashboard Properties gets listed in a context menu.

  • Select the Global Font and Themes option.

  • The Global Properties icon can be accessed within it.

  • By clicking on the Global Properties icon, the Global Properties Selection window opens displaying a list of the Global Properties that can be set or modified at the dashboard level.

Various Global Properties

The Global Properties feature streamlines the design process and saves time by providing a single point to manage appearance settings for the entire dashboard.

A dashboard is provided with the below-given Global Properties:

Enable Global Property for Background

Apply a border for all the dashboard components and set color and radius of the border for all components enabling the Global Property for Background.

Enable Global Property for Title

The Global Properties for the dashboard title ensure consistent branding and visual coherence throughout the entire dashboard. It helps the user to effectively convey the purpose behind the selected dashboard by aligning the Title display together with Title Bar height, Font color, Font Size, Font Style, font Weight, and Font family. It also allows to enable decoration for the inserted Title text.

Enable Global Property for Sub Title

The Global Sub-title Properties feature in the Dashboard application enables users to apply appearance properties at the dashboard level for sub-titles. By utilizing Global Sub-title Properties, users can ensure consistency and visual harmony across all sub-titles in the dashboard.

Enable Global Property for X Axis

By utilizing Global Properties for the X-axis, users can ensure consistency and visual coherence across all charts and graphs in the dashboard that use the X-axis. It helps to bring in uniformity for all the dashboard components containing X-Axis in terms of Label appearance and readability.

Enable Global Property for Y Axis

Ensure consistency and visual coherence across all the charts in the dashboard by utilizing Global Properties for the Y-axis. It helps to standardize all the dashboard components containing Y-Axis in terms of Label appearance, readability, and text decoration.

Enable Global Property for Legend

The Global Properties for Legend allows the user to customize the appearance properties of the legend to align with your design preferences.

Enable Global Property for Formatter

The Global Properties for Formatter allows the user to standardize various formatter related properties .

The user must click the Save option after setting or modifying the desired set of Global Properties to apply them on the selected dashboard.

Please Note:

  • While Global Properties offer convenience, users can still override specific properties for individual components if required.

  • It is recommended to define Global Properties at the beginning of the dashboard design process to establish a consistent visual identity from the outset.

The Global Property Selection window