Sample 0 - Drilldown Dashboard

Overtime, information that is used for various analysis purposes have become more detailed and combines large amounts of related data to improve the quality of the analysis. At times the dataset that has to be visualized can be complicated and detailed. Therefore, in such situations it is tremendously useful to have visualization tools that has the Drilldown functionality, which is a feature used to visualize deep into the data. WSO2 DS includes the drilldown feature, which allows the users to go deeper into one specific data aspect to reveal more details about that specific data. This is achieved by clicking a specific data plot in the visualization tool, which in turn will display the available details on the data plot by either visualizing the available details on different tools or by changing the same tool to visualize the details.

Let's see how to work with the drilldown dashboard related sample.

Step 1 - Deploy the sample dashboard

Run the wso2ds-samples script, which corresponds to your OS, to automatically copy the drilldown dashboard sample files into the necessary directories, and execute the corresponding startup script (wso2server.sh/wso2server.bat) to deploy the sample drilldown dashboard.

Step 2 - View the Dashboard

Follow the instructions below to view the sample drilldown dashboard:

Access the Dashboard Designer via one of the following URLs.
- For access via HTTP: http://<DS_HTTP_HOST>:<HTTP_PORT>/portal/
- For access via secured HTTP:
  https://<DS_HTTPS_HOST>:<HTTPS_PORT>/portal/
- Example:
  http://localhost:9763/portal/
Enter admin as the username and password, and click Login.

The Dashboard Designer home page appears with the sample dashboard named Demographics of USA.
Click View to view the gadget.

If you click on a state of USA in the Map gadget, you can see that the other gadgets change according to the data they are supposed to visualize based on the selected state.

If you click on each of the other gadgets, you can see the drilldown functionality implemented at the gadget level.