Specialized widgets

You can edit the layout of a widget and add multiple widget placeholders within a widget. Thus, a single widget can host multiple widgets or charts. To create a multi-chart widget, you must edit the layout of the host widget and manually draw widget placeholders in the widget area. You can then drag custom widgets, widget templates, or charts to each of those placeholders. You can also enter an external URL to create a web widget within the multi-chart widget. You can save the widget as an independent multi-chart widget but cannot save it as a template widget or publish it independently like other widgets. To publish the multi-chart widget, you must add it to a dashboard. The widget displays a Multi-chart widget icon next to it.

To each child-widget within the multi-chart widget, you can add widget-level or dashboard-level filters, add background image, set data definition, set widget and chart properties. To set relations within the child-widgets, you must drag this multi-chart widget to a dashboard. All the child-widgets within a multi-chart widget function as any other custom widget, irrespective of their placing. Therefore, you can set master-listener relation across any widgets within the dashboard.

You can add a background image to the multi-chart widget, set widget properties, and modify or delete the multi-chart widget. Like any other custom widget, you can create a multi-chart widget independently, and then drag it to a dashboard or create a multi-chart widget directly within a dashboard.

For more information about creating a multi-chart widget, see Creating a multi-chart widget.

You can embed a web application or website in a widget by entering an external URL within a widget and save the widget as an independent web widget. When you preview or publish the widget, it displays the website or web application within the widget itself and not in a separate browser window. You can add a background image and add independent or dependent dashboard-level filters to the widget. For the filters to work, you need to specify the filter names in the URL. You must enter the filter name within curly brackets in the URL at an appropriate location, based on the URL syntax.

You cannot add data definition or widget-level filter to this widget. Also, you cannot add this widget as a master widget when you set master-listener or drill-down relation. In a relation, you can add this widget either as a listener widget or as a drill-down widget.

You can save and publish this widget as an independent widget but cannot save it as a template widget. A saved widget displays a web widget icon next to it. The icon is displayed on the Manage Widgets page and in the navigation pane. As this widget does not contain any chart, you do not need to set chart properties. You need to set widget properties only. Like any other custom widget, you can create web widget independently, and then drag it to a dashboard or create a web widget directly within a dashboard.

For more information about creating a web widget, see Creating a web widget.

For more information about creating a widget that lists all the instances, see Creating custom widgets to list all instances.