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 the Viewer mode only)

Initialize the required storage type and pass the resulting object to the DashboardConfigurator.SetDashboardStorage method to specify a storage for the ASP.NET MVC Dashboard extension.

Storage Type	Class	Description
In-Memory Storage	DashboardInMemoryStorage	An in-memory dashboard storage is a default storage used to keep dashboards. Note The Web Dashboard uses the DashboardInMemoryStorage by default if you do not create storage.
File Storage	DashboardFileStorage	A file dashboard storage is used to keep dashboards in a file system.
Custom Storage	Implementation of IDashboardStorage or IEditableDashboardStorage	If necessary, you can provide your logic for managing dashboards. To do 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 allows 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 dashboard storage created at design time within Visual Studio. Note that you can use DashboardTypeStorage in the Viewer mode only.