Dashboards & Charts

Dashboards combine multiple insights - charts, data tables, and cards - into one governed layout over your datasets, with filters, themes, and a choice of private, shared, public, or embedded access. Every chart is backed by its compiled plan, so refreshing a dashboard re-runs the same governed pipeline, never a stale export.

Datasets: what dashboards are built on

Charts and dashboards render from datasets - named, saved queries against a datasource. A dataset can be cached and refreshed on one of three modes:

• Manual - refreshes only when you ask.
• On access - refreshes when it's opened.
• Interval - refreshes on a schedule you set.

Datasets serve their last result while a refresh runs and can fall back to the last good result if a refresh fails, so a dashboard stays responsive.

Charts

Any query or dataset result can become a chart with one click - Colrows infers the chart type from the shape and grain of the result, then lets you customize axes, legend, tooltip, and plot options. Supported chart types: line, bar, column, area, pie, and spline. Charts support aggregations and histograms (date and range), and stay responsive across screen sizes.

Dashboards

• Compose - add and arrange chart, table, and card widgets built from your datasets.
• Filter - dashboard-level filters apply across every widget; clicking a value cross-filters the rest.
• Theme - apply a saved theme to keep a consistent look.
• Refresh - refresh the whole dashboard as a unit; it re-runs each widget's governed plan.
• Edit safely - undo and redo while you build.

Share & embed

Every dashboard and chart has three visibility levels:

• Private - only you.
• Shared - specific users or groups; access is checked against the underlying data on every render.
• Public link - anyone with the link, rendered on a public page.

To put a dashboard or assistant inside your own application, see Embedded Assistants & Dashboards for the iframe and JavaScript-loader options and the token model.