Editing Panels

Once a panel is added to your dashboard you'll want to alter you dashboard and/or panels to make analyzing your data as efficient as possible. This may involve rearranging panels, changing visualizations to a different chart type, or even adding inputs (more on that to come).

Chart formatting

Let's take a look at how to edit dashboard panels by continuing on with our Datasets by Type & Size panel that we added previously.

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1. Click the dashboard options icon at the top right of the page.
2. Click Edit.
3. Click the edit icon at the top right of the Datasets by Type & Size panel.
4. Set Type to Bar.
5. Enable the Stack series toggle.
6. Set the following X-axis options.
   1. X-axis field: datasetType
   2. Title: Dataset Types
   3. Position: Bottom
7. Set the following Y-axis options.
   1. Title: Dataset Size %
   2. Scale: Linear
   3. Show gridlines: On
8. Under the Legend options set Position to Bottom.
9. Click the X at the top right of the Edit window to close the modal.
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   Each chart type has its own set of formatting options. It would be a great idea to familiarize yourself with them using the charts documentation

Great! without editing our query we've changed our unuseful events panel into a stacked bar chart. With this we can easily view what percentage of a datatype's size each dataset accounts for. Since we are happy with the way this visualization is configured let's save our work.

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1. Click Save at the top right of the dashboard editor.

Arranging Panels

Choosing the right visualizations is only one piece of the puzzle. The layout of the panels will also play a large roll in how quickly you analyze your data. Our dashboard could definitely use a little help in that department.

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1. If you are not still in Edit mode, click the dashboard options icon at the top right of the page.
2. Click Edit.
3. Click and hold the bottom right or bottom left corner of the Datasets per Provider panel and drag until the panel is half the width of the page.
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   Ensure you can still see the entire donut chart. Dragging vertically makes the panel taller/shorter while dragging horizontally makes the panel wider/narrower.

4. Repeat this for the the Datasets by Type & Size panel.
5. On the Datasets per Provider panel, click and hold the panel bar at the top center of the panel and drag to the top left position of the dashboard.
6. Repeat this process to move the Datasets by Type & Size panel to the top right position of the dashboard.

Great! If all went well (and seeing that you are strong with The Force there is no reason it wouldn't) then you should have a dashboard that looks something like the image below.

Feel free to play around with resizing and rearranging the panels. As we continue it will be up to you on where to place the additional panels. There are no wrong answers padawan. Trust in The Force.