Create a technical dashboard in UI Builder

  • Release version: Zurich
  • Updated July 31, 2025
  • 2 minutes to read

    • Follow the Technical Editor option to create a dashboard using UI Builder. In UI Builder, you can use a wider range of features than the inline editor, including scripting and data binding.

    Before you begin

    Creating dashboards in UI Builder is recommended for developers. For more information, see UI Builder.

    It isn’t possible to edit the dashboard's details in the Analytics Center when you create a dashboard in the Technical Editor. However, you can share a technical dashboard from the Analytics Center.
    Note:
    Data visualizations based on table data are automatically shared with users that you share a dashboard with.

    Role required: ui_builder_admin

    About this task

    The technical editor lets you add any UI Builder component to your dashboard. You can also use all other UI Builder features, such as data resources, client scripts, and data binding of configuration properties. The technical editor creates dashboards in a special workspace named Advanced Dashboards, which is available under My Experiences in the UI Builder.

    Procedure

    1. Navigate to All > Platform Analytics > Library > Dashboards.
    2. Select Create new dashboard.
    3. Choose Technical editor.
      Create new technical dashboard modal
      Warning:
      Do not try to create dashboards directly in the Advanced Dashboards experience on the UI Builder. Always begin in runtime from the Platform Analytics library. When you begin the technical dashboard in the library, it has an automatic connection to the par_dashboards table and is listed in the Dashboard overview component.
    4. Provide a name and description of the dashboard you are going to create and select Create new dashboard.
      The Technical editor option opens an empty dashboard.
    5. Select Edit in UI Builder.
    6. In the Content tree view, add layouts or container components.
      Containers hold dashboard components including data visualizations, static text boxes, and images. If you’re creating a tabbed dashboard, you can create each tab as a container under the parent Tabs component. For more information, see the Tabs component reference on the Developer Site.
    7. On the right side of the UI Builder, in the Styles tab, choose a layout.

      Layouts organize container content in patterns.

    8. Add a component to the container.
      Select it from the Components menu on the left or click the Add content (+) icon in the staging area.

      The Configure panel on the right enables you to configure the component you’ve chosen.

      Component menu in UI Builder.
    9. Optional: Add more containers, components, and configurations.
    10. If you have added a data visualization component and you want viewers to drill down to a more detailed data view from that component, follow the instructions in Add a drilldown event to a data visualization on a technical dashboard.
    11. Click Save at any time to save the changes you've made to the dashboard.