Inserting a Canvas object

A Canvas object contains the visual dashboard data objects that you can manipulate in Runtime mode.

About this task

To insert a Canvas object in a visual dashboard:

Procedure

  1. Make sure the visual dashboard is opened on the Canvas tab of the workbench editor area.
  2. Click the Show Palette icon to show the list of folders that hold the elements that you can add to your visual dashboard.
    Note: The Show Palette icon is located in the upper-right corner of the editor area:
    Screen capture showing the location of Show Palette icon.
  3. From the Containers palette of the Palette view, select the Canvas object and insert it in the editor window.
    The Canvas object is added to a visual dashboard. By default, the Canvas object is named Canvas1 and appears as grey box with a dotted line perimeter in the editor area:
    Screen capture showing a Canvas object in the editor area.

Results

The Canvas object has an internal tree. The repository subtree or queries subtree of data visualization objects and data transformation objects located in visual dashboard depends on the Source property of the internal tree.

The Canvas object has an internal tree that represents (in its entirety) the hierarchical structure of data visualization objects and data transformation objects. Keep in mind that Canvas supports only a subset of data visualization objects and data transformation objects.

To view the internal tree of the Canvas, switch the editor to Runtime mode.