Basics of Building a Dashboard

Now that we have covered the concept and purpose of a dashboard, it is time to learn how to build one. This dashboard starts off as a single page, with very basic functionality to illustrate the techniques involved. This sample dashboard shows you how to make nuggets, use the COM add-ins provided by the Digital Dashboard Starter Kit, and how to use some Dynamic HTML to implement the show/hide functionality of the sample dashboards (see Figure 12.6).

Figure 12.6. If you follow along with this chapter, you will produce a dashboard like the one shown here.

The four elements of creating a dashboard that will be covered ...

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