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The Building Blocks of Your Dashboard

A gadget is a specific, configurable widget that you place on your dashboard to visualize a set of data. Your dashboard is a canvas, and gadgets are the powerful tools you use to paint your data story. This guide serves as a reference library for all the standard gadget types available in Luklak, explaining the purpose and best use case for each.

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Charts

Charts are the best way to visualize proportions, comparisons, and trends in your data. You typically configure a chart by grouping your 🧊 Objects by a Select List, User, or Status field.
Best for: Showing proportions and the percentage breakdown of a whole.
Business Question: “What is the breakdown of our sales pipeline by Stage?” or “What percentage of our support tickets are High Priority?”
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Statistics Tables

Statistics Tables are powerful tools for creating summary reports in a pivot-table-like format. They are ideal for analyzing the distribution of work across two dimensions.
  • 1D Statistics Table: Groups 🧊 Objects by one criterion to create a simple summary table.
    • Business Question: “Show me a count of all Support Tickets, grouped by their Status.”
  • 2D Statistics Table: Groups 🧊 Objects by two criteria simultaneously, creating a matrix.
    • Business Question: “Show me a count of all Support Tickets, with Priority as the rows and Assignee as the columns. This helps identify if one person is overloaded with high-priority tickets.”

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Counters & Formulas

This gadget is for displaying a single, important number or calculated result.
  • Counter: The simplest gadget. It displays a real-time count of 🧊 Objects that match your UQL query.
    • Use Case: A large number showing the “Total Open Bugs” or “Deals Closed This Quarter.”
  • Formula: Allows you to perform calculations on aggregated data.
    • Use Case: Use two different counters to calculate a conversion rate: (Count of 'Deals Won' / Count of 'All Deals') * 100 to show your overall “Win Rate %”.

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Object List

Sometimes the most important thing is not a chart, but a direct view of the work itself. This gadget allows you to embed a filtered list of key 🧊 Objects directly onto your dashboard.
  • Use Case: On a Project Manager’s dashboard, alongside charts showing overall progress, include an Object List gadget that shows “All 🧊 Tasks with a Status of BLOCKED” for immediate action.

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Activity Feed

This gadget embeds a real-time activity stream from a selected data source directly into your dashboard view, allowing users to track updates and take action in real time.
  • Use Case: On a team’s dashboard, include an Activity Feed for their specific ⏹️ Space so everyone can see the latest comments, status changes, and file attachments without leaving the dashboard.

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What’s Next?

You’ve explored the full library of gadgets. Now, let’s walk through the process of combining them to create your first dashboard.