Working with modal dialogs in visual dashboards

You can design templates for modal dialogs and add them to your visual dashboards by using the Show dialog and Close dialog event actions.

About this task

To design a modal dialog and add it to a visual dashboard you need to perform the following actions:

Procedure

  1. Create a dialog template to specify visual parameters of the dialog. You can also select a template from the existing ones or edit it.
  2. Create a scene, which you want to use for a dialog.
  3. In the scene properties, specify the dialog parameters and a dialog template.
  4. Add controls, local variables, and event handlers to the dialog scene.
  5. Add the Show dialog action to the main scene of the visual dashboard and specify its parameters and behavior.
  6. Add the Close dialog action, and specify its parameters.

What to do next

See the following topics for more details about adding modal dialogs to visual dashboards: