Create a Custom Item for the Web Dashboard
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In addition to built-in dashboard items, you can implement and embed custom items into the Web Dashboard.
A custom item is a JavaScript extension that supports the following item-related features and more:
If you are not familiar with the basic concepts of extensions, please start with the following topic: Extensions Overview.
Tutorials
The tutorials below describe how to create custom items step by step:
- Static Item
- Create a custom Hello World item that displays static text and allows a user to change this text in the UI.
- Data-Aware Item
- Create a custom item that displays formatted dimension values and allows users to color these values.
- Data-Aware Item Based on an External Visualization Widget
- Create a custom item that uses the external dxFunnel widget. This widget supports data binding, master filtering, and coloring.
- Implement a Custom Item Interactivity
- The topic describes what you need to do to support Master Filtering and Drill-Down for a custom item.
You can download the projects with the ready-to-use custom items based on the tutorials above:
Custom Item Gallery
The Custom Item Gallery contains custom items created from the most popular user requests. You can find the following custom items inside:
- Simple Table
- Parameter Item
- Online Map
- Web Page
- Gantt Chart
- Funnel D3 Chart
- Polar Chart
- Hierarchical Tree View
