Adding Sheets To Dashboard and Positioning Them

Quick reference

• 00:03 Okay, so we've created our dashboard,
• 00:06 we've got our things set up here, we've got it resized to the size we want.
• 00:10 Now, how do we actually add stuff to it?
• 00:12 Well, we can use any of these visualizations that we've created
• 00:16 over here inside of our dashboard.
• 00:18 And we use them just by coming over to the sheets column here, and
• 00:22 if we hover over these, each one, we can see what we've got.
• 00:25 So you can see we're just showing one little bar there, so
• 00:28 I'm going to come back over here, let's grab a good one here.
• 00:34 All right, AM FOXHOUND and that looks pretty good, same thing,
• 00:37 I'm going to go over here to my Dog Breed, the other one.
• 00:39 And let's grab AM FOXHOUND for this one or
• 00:42 maybe we'll change this to ESKIMO DOG or BEAGLE.
• 00:46 All right, so okay, we've got our data here, and we can come over here and
• 00:50 we can, okay, it looks a little different.
• 00:53 Now, but either way, in order to use these, we just grab each of these and
• 00:57 then hold your mouse button down and then just drag it over here.
• 01:00 And you'll notice the whole size of this turns dark gray, right,
• 01:04 as I pull it in there.
• 01:06 And you might be thinking, well, we don't want just this one in here,
• 01:09 it took up the whole screen.
• 01:11 Well, it just sort of does that by default, you can come over here and
• 01:15 click this and do Fit, and you can sort of change it.
• 01:18 Right here, it's an entire view, we could change this to standard,
• 01:22 it kind of resizes.
• 01:24 We don't really need to do that though, because I put it back to Entire View,
• 01:27 because when we add the next thing, it will sort of resize automatically.
• 01:31 So to do that, let's grab this next guy and
• 01:33 I'm going to hold down my mouse button and drag this over.
• 01:36 And you could see sort of gray areas highlight, and
• 01:40 this is sort of suggesting where this might go.
• 01:43 So we can have them side by side, we can have one on top of the other.
• 01:46 We can have it over here, we can have it down there.
• 01:49 So you could see,
• 01:50 just sort of move your mouse around and position this wherever you want.
• 01:53 So I'm just going to put it right here and now,
• 01:56 we've got them side by side, very cool.
• 01:59 And you'll notice, again, our little menu guys are still here,
• 02:04 and we can move these around too, maybe we will in a bit.
• 02:08 But we can still toggle these things and they still work,
• 02:12 right, so very cool, right?
• 02:14 And so that's a lot of fun, so I just come through here and grab all your guys.
• 02:19 So again you could see now, it's saying hey,
• 02:21 do you want to put them right next to each other?
• 02:24 These guys are really small, or we can grab this and move it.
• 02:30 Right, so I'm going to pull this out and do this again, so here,
• 02:34 we can do like that.
• 02:35 We can have one on top of another, that's kind of cool, maybe we'll put that here.
• 02:39 We can put it down here, we can put it up there, just sort of move around and see
• 02:44 the different options that are available and just sort of have some fun with this.
• 02:48 Put it right here now, this is very small, because over here, it's very small, right?
• 02:53 But we can resize this if we want, same way,
• 02:56 we did it earlier just by dragging this guy over and doing the same thing.
• 03:01 It's a little tricky to get hold of it, there we go, and
• 03:04 you can play around with that.
• 03:07 And that's it, that looks good, and so, now, we finally got this dog name one.
• 03:13 Let's see, let's put this guy right here,
• 03:16 maybe these two graphs should go side by side.
• 03:19 So, you can position these things however you want,
• 03:22 just as easy to move them around after you've already positioned them by
• 03:25 grabbing this little notch thing here at the top.
• 03:27 And you could see there's an arrow thing that appears, that's the move thing.
• 03:33 So you just hold your mouse button down and then just drag it wherever you want.
• 03:36 So, just as easy to create a visualization and man, this took like a minute,
• 03:41 and we've already got something that's looking pretty good.
• 03:45 And we can play around with it, it still moves, very cool and
• 03:49 likewise we can grab these and pull them to different areas.
• 03:54 Now, if we want to move this down because it goes with this one or whatever,
• 03:58 we can do that, we can resize them.
• 04:00 We click this guy to toggle different things and
• 04:02 play around with that, it's very cool.
• 04:04 So you'll notice this is highlighted and if I click on this, this is highlighted.
• 04:10 To get out of that, just come over here and just click anywhere else and
• 04:13 that all disappears.
• 04:13 And so you have, a more visually pleasing thing and it's very cool.
• 04:17 So we're going to get into this stuff in more detail going forward in the next
• 04:21 few videos.
• 04:21 But right off the bat, very quick and easy way to make a dashboard and really,
• 04:25 really neat.
• 04:26 So in the next video, we'll look at redefining a dashboard.

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