Using a Template to Lay Out Dashboard Content

Overview

SAS BI Dashboard provides two layout templates that you can use when designing dashboard content:
  • horizontal
  • vertical
Each layout template controls the flow of the indicators that are displayed in the template. The horizontal and vertical flow templates automatically arrange (in the indicated direction) the indicators that they contain. When the indicators exceed the width or height of the template, the layout of the indicators is wrapped.
Note: When an indicator is contained by a horizontal or vertical template, the following behaviors occur:
  • The zoom setting of the template affects all of the contained indicators in the same way.
  • No titles appear on the indicators.

Lay Out Dashboard Contents by Using a Template

To lay out dashboard content by using a template, complete the following steps in a dashboard:
  1. In the Objects pane, expand the Layout Templates section. The available templates appear.
  2. Drag a template onto the dashboard workspace.
    Note:
    • You can add more than one template to a dashboard. However, you must manually adjust their location in the dashboard.
    • To delete a template from the dashboard, hover your mouse over the template. The template toolbar appears. Click Delete icon.
  3. In the dashboard workspace, click the template. The Objects section appears in the Properties pane.
  4. In the Setup group, type a name for the template in the Name field and press Enter. The name appears in the template title bar.
  5. In the Objects pane, expand the Library section.
  6. Locate an indicator and drag the indicator onto the template in the dashboard workspace.
  7. Continue to add indicators to the template until you are satisfied.
    Note: You can add an indicator to the same dashboard only once.
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