How to use charts | Centrldesk
In this video, you will learn how to use charts in Centrldesk. Charts are helpful for presenting data in a graphical format in order to obtain a quick overview. They are often used for reporting and dashboards. In this example we will create a chart and use it to display data from our database. So let's start building our application:
Steps:
1. We have already created a table with four columns and we have also already createt a database table with sample data.
2. First we go to the page editor by clicking on the Edit Page button in the upper right menu.
3. The Page Editor opens.
4. Drag and drop a pie chart element under charts to the middle of the page editor.
5. Centrldesk offers many different types of charts, such as Bar Charts, Pie Charts, Line Charts or Timeline Charts.
6. Select the pie chart.
7. On the right side, change the Style of the chart to donut.
8. On the right side, click on Labels.
9. The Edit list dialog opens.
10. Click on Add Item.
11. Click on Item zero.
12. The Edit chart category dialog opens.
13. Enter "Top Management" as label.
14. Confirm with save.
15. Click on Add Item.
16. Click on Item one.
17. The Edit chart category dialog opens.
18. Enter "Middle Management" as label.
19. Confirm with save.
20. Click on Add Item.
21. Click on Item two.
22. The Edit chart category dialog opens.
23. Enter "Employees" as label.
24. Confirm with save.
25. Confirm the edit list dialog with save.
26. To refresh the Pie chart later when interacting with the Add Entry button, we click on the Add Entry button and then on Edit On Click.
27. The flow editor opens.
28. Select the Refresh Chart block.
29. On the right side, select Pie Chart.
30. Close the flow editor by clicking close in the upper right corner.
31. To refresh the Pie chart later when interacting with the Remove selected entry button, we click on the Remove Selected Entry button and then on Edit On Click.
32. The flow editor opens.
33. Select the Refresh Chart block.
34. On the right side, select Pie Chart.
35. Close the flow editor by clicking close in the upper right corner.
36. In order to build an algorithm that calculates the number of top management, middle management and employees based on our database, we need three global variables.
37. Click on the variables icon on the left side.
38. The variable view is displayed
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