Providing Data

The Web Dashboard allows you to bind various dashboard items to data in a virtually uniform manner. To learn more, see the Binding Dashboard Items to Data topic.

The only difference is in the data sections that the required dashboard item has. This topic describes how to bind a Pivot dashboard item to data.

Binding to Data in the Web Dashboard

The image below shows a sample Pivot dashboard item that is bound to data.

To bind the Pivot dashboard item to data, click a placeholder contained in one of the available data sections and select the required data source field in the Binding section of the invoked data item menu.

The table below lists and describes the Pivot's data sections.

Section

Processed as

Description

Values Measure Contains data items used to calculate values displayed in the pivot table.
Columns Dimension Contains data items whose values are used to label columns.
Rows Dimension Contains data items whose values are used to label rows.