Prepare a Dashboard Storage

• May 29, 2019
• 2 minutes to read

The Web Dashboard requires creating a special storage used to keep dashboards. End-users can save new dashboards to this storage and open existing dashboards.

The following storage types are available:

• In-Memory Storage
• File Storage
• Custom Storage
• Dashboard Type Storage (works in Viewer mode only)

To specify a storage for the ASPxDashboard control, initialize the required storage type and pass the resulting object to the ASPxDashboard.SetDashboardStorage or DashboardConfigurator.SetDashboardStorage method depending on the server-side API that is used.

Storage Type	Class	Description
In-Memory Storage	DashboardInMemoryStorage	An in-memory dashboard storage is used to keep dashboards by default. Note If you do not create a dashboard storage, the Web Dashboard uses the DashboardInMemoryStorage by default.
File Storage	DashboardFileStorage	A file dashboard storage is used to keep dashboards in a file system. Note For the ASPxDashboard control, you can specify a folder to store dashboards using the ASPxDashboard.DashboardStorageFolder property.
Custom Storage	Implementation of IDashboardStorage or IEditableDashboardStorage	You can introduce your logic for managing dashboards. For this, implement the IDashboardStorage or IEditableDashboardStorage interfaces that provide an API used to manage dashboards: The IDashboardStorage.GetAvailableDashboardsInfo method returns information about dashboards stored in storage. The IDashboardStorage.LoadDashboard/IDashboardStorage.SaveDashboard methods allow you to load/save the dashboard from/to the storage. The IEditableDashboardStorage.AddDashboard method allows you to add a new dashboard to the storage. How to: Save Dashboards Created in ASPxDashboard to a DataSet
Dashboard Type Storage	DashboardTypeStorage	A storage of dashboards created in Visual Studio at design time. Note that you can use DashboardTypeStorage in Viewer mode only.