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Create your first dashboard

Turn a web map into a live operational view: indicators, charts and tables around the map, all bound to the same layers — click a chart and the map filters.

Note

You’ll want a saved web map first — see Create your first map. Building dashboards requires the Editor role or higher; publishing one publicly requires Publisher or Admin.

The dashboard builder with element palette and properties panel
The dashboard builder — palette left, canvas center, properties right

  1. Create the dashboard

    Open Apps → Dashboards and press Create dashboard. Start blank, from the built-in Overview dashboard template, or from a template your organization has saved.

  2. Add a Map element

    Drag Map from the Add elements palette onto the canvas and pick your web map. The dashboard’s data elements will bind to the layers inside this map — no separate data setup.

  3. Add an Indicator

    Drag in an Indicator, then in the Properties panel bind it: choose the map element, one of its layers, a field and an aggregation (Count, Sum, Average, Minimum or Maximum). Format it with prefix, suffix and decimals.

  4. Add a Chart

    Add a Chart (bar, line or pie), pick the category field and the value. Turn on its click-to-filter option so clicking a bar or slice filters the other elements by that category.

  5. Add a Filter

    Add a Filter element for your readers: category values as pills or a searchable dropdown, a numeric range slider, or a date picker. Per element you choose whether it filters everything or just the map.

  6. Arrange and design

    Everything sits on a 12-column grid — drag to move, pull any edge to resize. Open Design to apply one of your organization’s themes; colors, fonts, radius and spacing switch together. Edits autosave as you go.

  7. Preview and publish

    Use Preview to see the dashboard as readers will. When it’s ready, press Publish — the sidesheet lists exactly which datasets become publicly readable, then gives you the public link (your-org.orbgis.se/your-dashboard) and a QR code. Publishing requires the Publisher or Admin role.

How the crossfiltering behaves#

Filters, chart clicks and table-row clicks all publish to a shared runtime. The map applies filters client-side on the vector tiles it already has — nothing re-downloads, features simply drop out. Charts, tables and indicators re-query with the combined filter. A chart deliberately ignores its own filter, so clicking a bar never collapses the chart to a single bar. You can also let the map zoom to the filtered selection.

Tip

The full element reference — all nine element types, seven action-button actions and three filter modes — is in Dashboards.