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First steps#

Welcome to our tutorial! Here, we'll guide you through the essential steps to build a more complex dashboard using our SDK library.

In this first section, "First Steps", we'll cover the foundational aspects that will set you on the path to building impressive dashboards. Here's a glimpse of what we'll be diving into:

  • Tables: Import and display data in tables according to your visualization needs.
  • Timeseries: Visualize numerical data over time, add tooltips, legends, and navigation toolbars.
  • Linking Widgets: Connect widgets to build interactive dashboards.
  • Layout: Organize widgets using grids, rows, columns, and tab sections to create effective displays.

To start our tutorial, you should first install our SDK library. You can do this by accessing our Installation Section.

After the installation, run the following command in your terminal:

engineai dashboard init

Now navigate to your project folder new_dashboard and run the following command:

engineai dashboard publish

Once you have published your Dashboard, you will get a link displayed in your terminal. You can view it by following the link:

Result

For more detailed information about our generated project, please take a look at our Your First Dashboard section.

Next Steps#

In the upcoming pages, we will delve deeper into the various widgets available, their styling and formatting options, and explore data manipulation techniques. We'll also explore the grid system and other features that make the Platform SDK a powerful tool for creating interactive dashboards.

On the next page you will learn about the table widget and how to use it to display data in a tabular format.