Layers

When your dashboard contains a large number of elements, the Layers feature can be used to group, manage, and arrange elements. Let's take a look!

Navigate to the Properties tab > Board > Layers to open the layers pane.

Layers tab in Analytics+

1. Hiding elements

Right-click on the element and select Show/Hide from the context menu to hide or display elements. You can also use theicon that appears on hovering over an element. Hidden elements will be grayed out in the Layers pane.

Hiding and showing elements

2. Bringing elements to the front

Notice how the card elements at the top are behind the charts - we need to bring them forward to resize and align them. To send elements to the background or bring elements to the foreground, click on the element and select the Bring Front or Bring Back options.

Bring front and Send back

3. Creating groups

You can club elements together to form a group. Groups come in useful when you need to perform bulk operations like deleting or duplicating elements. Select the elements in the layer pane and click the Group button from the context menu to create a group.

Creating a group

Group created

You can rename groups for easy identification. You can also duplicate and delete them from the context menu.

Select the group and choose UnGroup Selection from the context menu to ungroup elements.

The Reset option will remove all configurations and customizations. You will need to choose the element type and re-configure them from scratch.

Grouped elements will be treated as a single entity and can be repositioned easily without having to drag and drop each element.

Repositioning groups

One main application of groups is for creating tabbed dashboards using the Navigation feature which we will cover in the next section.

4. Moving elements in the list

When you have a dashboard with a large number of elements, you can use the Bring Foreward and Bring Backward options to move them above or below the next element.

Bring foreward option

Text element moved above Group 3