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Providing Data

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The Web Dashboard allows you to bind dashboard items to data in a uniform and similar manner. See the Bind Dashboard Items to Data in the Web Dashboard’s UI topic for common information.

The difference is in the data sections that the specific dashboard item has. This topic describes how to bind the Pie Map dashboard item to data.

Binding to Data in the Web Dashboard

The image below shows a sample Pie Map dashboard item that is bound to data.

wdd-pie-map-bindings

To bind the Pie Map dashboard item to data, click a placeholder contained in one of the available data sections and select the required data source field in the Binding section of the invoked data item menu.

The tables below list and describe the Pie Map’s data sections.

Section

Processed as

Description

Latitude

Dimension

Accepts a dimension used to provide geographic latitude.

Longitude

Dimension

Accepts a dimension used to provide geographic longitude.

Values

Measure

Accepts measures used to calculate pie values.

Arguments

Measure

Allows you to provide data for pie arguments.

If you added a data item to the Argument section and several data items to the Values section, you can use the Values drop-down menu to switch between the provided values. To invoke the Values menu, click the DashboardItems_OtherElements icon in the dashboard item caption.

The Pie Map allows you to add supplementary content to tooltips to provide additional data.

Section Processed as Description
Tooltip Dimensions Dimension Accepts dimensions allowing you to add supplementary content to tooltips.
Tooltip Measures Measure Accepts measures allowing you to add summaries to tooltips.