Dashboard menu

The Dashboard menu provides access to graphs, slicer options, navigation among any different pages of the dashboard, and data options. The pane is on the left side of the dashboard and includes access to the Open, Navigator, Data, and Assets sections. You can also select Home to go back to the Minitab Solution Center home page. When you are in Present mode, only the Navigator is available on the menu.

Open

Select Open to open an existing dashboard or a data source. If you open a data source from an online file, you can select Refresh Data

from Data to update the data in the dashboard. If you imported a data file, you can select Refresh Data to browse to the file location and import the most recent version. You can add up to 20 data sets to a dashboard.

Note

If you reorder or delete worksheets in an online Excel file, re-import the Excel file and establish a new connection to ensure that the connection has no errors.

For more information on how to add a data connection from the Minitab Data Center, go to Data center workflow.

Navigator

Use the Navigator to manage pages to the dashboard. You can copy, rename, reorder, and delete existing pages. You can use multiple pages to organize your dashboard content. For example, a single dashboard can have 3 pages that reproduce the same summary graphs for 3 different regions from the same data set.

Data

Use Data to refresh your data, view information about the type of data, and send the data to Minitab.

If you imported a data connection from the Minitab Data Center or a data source from an online file, you can select Refresh Data from Data to update the data in the dashboard. If you imported a data file, you can select Refresh Data to browse to the file location and import the most recent version.

You can select More to edit the data in the Minitab Data Center, rename the data, delete the data, or open the data in Minitab.

Assets

An asset is an item that you can place onto the dashboard canvas to convey important information to other people. Assets include graphs, control charts, slicer controls, and static elements such as text and images.

For more information about a type of asset, select one of the following links.

After you add an asset to the dashboard, select Open to re-open the dialog. Select Edit to open the Options pane on the right side of the dashboard. Options depend on the type of asset. Options include editing the titles of graphs, adding reference lines to control charts, and formatting text and images.