This topic describes how to bind a Card dashboard item to data in the Dashboard Designer.

The Dashboard Designer allows you to bind various dashboard items to data in a virtually uniform manner (see the Binding Dashboard Items to Data topic for details).

The only difference is in the data sections that these dashboard items have.

1. Cards

   The Cards section contains data items used to calculate values displayed within cards.

   Data items are arranged in containers. Each data item container can hold two data items. The first item contains actual data and the second item (optional) contains target data. If both items are provided, cards show the difference between actual and target values.

   

   If only one item is provided, cards display values from this item.

   You can fill several data item containers in the Cards section and use the Values drop-down menu to switch between the provided values. To invoke the Values menu, click the icon in the dashboard item caption.

   

   Note
   This drop-down menu is available if the Series section is not empty. Otherwise, a separate card is created for each data item container, and all cards are displayed simultaneously.

2. Series

   The Series section contains data items whose values are used to label cards.

   

3. Sparkline

   The Sparkline section is used to provide a date-time dimension whose data will be used to visualize values using sparklines. To learn more, see the Sparkline topic.