Providing Data

The Dashboard Designer allows you to bind various dashboard items to data in a virtually uniform manner. To learn more, see the Binding Dashboard Items to Data topic. The only difference is in the data sections that the required dashboard item has.

The Treemap dashboard item has the Values and Arguments data sections that provide numeric and discrete categorical data, respectively. The steps below provide the most common scenarios of binding a Treemap to data.

1. Drop the Sales and Profit fields to the Values section.

   

   The Treemap will draw two tiles whose sizes correspond to the Sales and Profit summary values.

2. Drop the Product Category field to Arguments.

   

   Treemap will create individual tiles for all categories. You can switch between Sales and Profit values by clicking the icon in the item's caption or you can use its context menu.

3. Drop the child Product Sub-Category field into Arguments.

   

   The Treemap will visualize all combinations of categories and corresponding sub-categories using individual tiles.

4. If the Arguments section contains several dimensions, you can group child tiles by values of the parent dimension. To group sub-categories inside corresponding categories, click the CategoryName menu button and select Group Tiles.

   

   Sub-category tiles will be grouped into category groups.