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Create Canvas Dashboards


While Rill's signature Explore dashboards let you slice, dice, and interact with your data in our suggested layout, Canvas dashboards let you define your own visualizations of data from multiple metrics views and arrange them into your preferred layout.

You can add the following widgets to a Canvas dashboard:

  • Chart: Select dimensions and measures to visualize as a line, bar, or donut chart.
  • KPI: Create a grid of key performance indicators from measures defined in a metrics view.
  • Leaderboard: Just like in our Explore dashboards, display a grid of your top lists per category and click to quickly filter.
  • Table: Select dimensions and measures to visualize as a flat or nested table.
  • Text: Use markdown to create labels or descriptive text blocks.
  • Image: Provide a URL to an image.

A Visual Editing Experience​

To modify any single widget, click to select it and use the righthand panel to change its associated properties. Click outside the widget to view global properties associated with the overall Canvas.


Global and Local Filters​

Optionally toggle on the filter bar under Canvas properties to give dashboard viewers access to the same time and dimension filters available on Explore dashboards.


Filters for a single KPI, Chart, or Table can be separated from the global filters via the "Filters" tab in the properties panel, where you can set filters that are local to just that widget.

Making changes to the YAML​

While we encourage creating Canvas dashboards via the visual editing experience described above, you can always edit the YAML file directly using the code view by toggling the switch next to the filename at the top of the page. Please see our customization page and reference documentation for more information.

Example Canvas Dashboards​

Here are a few deployed examples of Canvas dashboards that you can check out!