Inserting a Tree control object

A Tree object provides an additional mechanism that you can use to display objects in a visual dashboard and drag objects from a Tree to a Canvas object.

About this task

To insert a Tree object to 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 Controls palette of the Palette view, select the Tree object and insert it in the editor window.
    The Tree object is added to a visual dashboard. By default, the Tree object is named Tree1 and appears as grey box with a dotted line perimeter in the editor area:
    Screen capture showing a Tree object in the editor area.

Results

The Tree object provides a view into the hierarchical structure of data visualization objects and data transformation objects.

To view the hierarchical structure of the Tree, switch the editor to Runtime mode.

What to do next

In Runtime mode you can drag the visual dashboard objects from the Tree object to the Canvas object.