Dashboards Programmability

Starting version 1.27, Flex allows users to programmatically configure the Dashboards navigation. Currently setting a filter for the Dashboards is supported.

Terminology

To explain how the filtering works, its important to establish some terms and explain how the navigation works.

We currently support 2 diffent kinds of dashboards:

1. The Project Dashboards, which group sets of Tabs, which you can select to display a dashboard,
2. and Analytical Dashboards, which by themselves are the dashboards.

Sidebar navigation

The Sidebar is used to list all of the dashboards and tabs in a way which is easy to navigate. On top, there is a dropdown, which allows you to select between All Dashboards, My Dashboards and also allows you to select a specific Project Dashboard.

When All Dashboards is selected, the list will display all of the Analytical Dashboards first and then every Project Dashboard along with its tabs.

When a specific Project Dashboard is selected, the list will only display its underlying tabs.

DashboardsSidebar component

This component has 2 default props that can be overriden:

• dashboardsFilter: (dashboard) => boolean
• dashboardTabFilter: (tab, dashboard) => boolean

These props are available under the following namespace: Flex.Insights.DashboardsSidebar.defaultProps.

dashboardsFilter

The dashboardsFilter determines which dashboards will be available in the dropdown at the top of the sidebar and as part of the navigation. The return value from the function dictates if the particular Dashboard will be displayed or hidden.

The function takes dashboard as an argument. This can be either an Analytical Dashboard or a Project Dashboard.

If false is returned for a Project Dashboard, it will disappear from both the dropdown and from the navigation – if "All Dashboards" is selected, along with all of its tabs. If you want to hide only some of the tabs, use the dashboardTabFilter prop.

If false is returned for an Analytical Dashboard, it will be hidden from the top of the navigation, when "All Dashboards" is selected.

The dashboard argument has the following shape:

identifier: string;
category?: string;
link?: string;
title?: string;
author?: string;
tabs?: Array<{
    title: string;
    identifier: string;
}>;
widgets?: string[];

Example

In this example, let's say you want to hide a dashboard named "Control Center":

Flex.Insights.DashboardsSidebar.defaultProps.dashboardsFilter =
  (dashboard) => 
    dashboard.title !== "Control Center"

dashboardTabFilter

Sometimes you might not want to hide the whole Project Dashboard, but only some of its tabs. Thats when this function comes in handy.

The function takes tab and a dashboard as its arguments. Each Project Dashboard tab is checked againts this filter and the return value for that tab determines if the tab should be displayed or not. The dashboard argument is the Project Dashboard which the tab is part of. This allows you to decide not only based on the tab title itself, but also by the properties of the dashboard, as displayed in the example below.

The tab argument has the following shape:

title: string;
identifier: string;

Example

Let's say you want to hide a tab named Conversations which is part of the Control Center dashboard:

Flex.Insights.DashboardsSidebar.defaultProps.dashboardTabFilter =
  (tab, dashboard) => 
    tab.title !== "Conversations" && dashboard.title !== "Control Center"

It might, however, be a better idea to filter directly by ID. To find out ID for any dashboard, you can follow this guide. Please note that the ID in the URL corresponds with the tab.identifier key.

Please note that setting a dashboardTabFilter has no effect on Analytical Dashboards.