Skip to main content

Bind a Dashboard to JSON

This tutorial describes how to connect a dashboard to a JSON endpoint.

Create a Data Model and Dashboard

  1. Define data models that obtain data from your data providers. For this tutorial, prepare a data model connected to a JSON endpoint.

  2. Open an existing dashboard or create a new dashboard as described in the Create and Customize Dashboards topic.

Bind the Dashboard to Data

Do the following to connect a dashboard to a JSON data model:

  1. Click the main menu button and select Data Sources.

    rs-dashboard-menu-data-sources

  2. In the Used Data Sources section, click Add to create a new data source.

    rs-dashboard-used-data-sources-add

  3. On the first page of the invoked Dashboard Data Source Wizard, select a JSON data model and click Next.

    rs-dashboard-data-source-wizard-json-select-data-model

  4. Select the JSON object’s element to use as the root and select data fields to include in the data source.

    rs-dashboard-data-source-wizard-json-select-elements

    Click Finish to complete the wizard.

View the Result

The Data Sources screen now contains the added data source and displays the available data fields.

rs-add-data-source-json-result