Over time building dashboards in Wave I’ve found a few neat (and maybe a little hidden) shortcuts. Personally, these are helping me and making things a little easier every time I build dashboards. Search in Dashboard JSON If you have worked with the dashboard JSON then you already know the first shortcut “Command+E” or “Control+E”. ...
Earlier I wrote a post about static steps and how they can give the dashboard viewer additional power in exploring data [read the post here]. I showed how to use static steps as a measure, grouping, filter, order and limit. However, all my examples used dimensions or of course measure, they did not use a ...
If you like me have been building dashboard in Wave for awhile, then you probably would agree that best practice is limiting the usage of multiple datasets. One of the main reasons for this is that the natural faceting that makes widgets interact with each other will stop working. Traditionally you would have to add ...
When you have an event in the calendar you need to draw attention to the event with the goal of driving attendance. One obvious approach is to look at your existing database of contacts and invite relevant people. Instead of sending a single email you can use the engagement studio. Here’s a sample of how ...
I’ve had the pleasure of working on a Wave project that started up after the Salesforce Spring17 release. Knowing that there were some great enhancements [see about them here], I thought this was the perfect opportunity to try some of them out. One that I ended up exploring and using quite a lot was the recipes ...
If you are new to Salesforce Wave or even if you have been using Wave for a while but never dared to look at what happens behind the dashboard, here are my top quick tricks to make some helpful changes in Wave. Firstly, for every lens there is a underlying JSON code that defines the logic ...
Sometimes you want to give your end users a little bit more flexibility when viewing Wave dashboards. This could be by allowing them to choose which grouping or measure to use in the graph. Static steps are a way for you to empower this flexibility. First, we need to create a lens we can put on ...
In Wave you can view your data on a world map; this is pretty cool if you want to see how your opportunities or cases are spreading across the world. However, it can quickly become be a lot of details if you work with opportunities or cases in the whole world. With a few tricks, you ...
Last year Salesforce brought us the flex designer that made it easier and much quicker for us to build dashboards and make them available on all devices. Now it’s Springtime and Salesforce are bringing more goodies to the table. Here’s my take on some exciting new features to look out for this Springtime. Connect datasets ...