Bind a Dashboard to JSON

• Oct 23, 2019

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

   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.