What's a widget?
For each integration there are one or more key types of data that can be pulled in and displayed on your dashboard. To do this we use widgets, or the building blocks of your dashboard.
Widgets visualize the data you pull in from our integrations. Our widgets come in the form of simple text, figures, graphs, maps, and everything in between. A typical dashboard may include several widgets that pull in data from several integrations.
To create a new widget for your dashboard, follow these steps:
Before you start
Is the widget you're about to create similar or identical to one you’ve already added and configured? You can easily and rapidly make copies of a widget.
- Hover your cursor over an empty space on your dashboard and click the + button.
Alternatively, click , located in the top right of your dashboard. - You'll see a scrollable list of Integrations. Scroll down to the integration you wish to connect to, or search using the Search sources field.
- Click on your chosen integration.
- Choose from the list of available widgets. Some integrations also have an option to from scratch.
- Pulling data from a cloud service for the first time? You might be asked to log in to create a connection to Geckoboard. Each integration has its own authentication process.
Once connected, all Account owners and Admins of your Geckoboard account will be able to add or edit widgets using data from the connected service.
Note
Usually this is something you only need to do once per integration, but a service like Facebook, for example, needs to be reconnected to Geckoboard every 30 days.
You’ll now be prompted to authenticate the service you’re connecting to. - Now you can configure the options specific to the widget you’re setting up in order to define what data should be pulled through and how it should be displayed.
Note
When setting comparison periods for widgets our integrations, in general, should compare the previous period to "right now".
For example, when comparing the past 7 days to the previous 7 days, we want to be comparing the data right now to what it was right now 7 days ago. This doesn't always happen, especially in our older integrations.
