2.6.3 Building a Composite Dashboard
Some dashboards require a large number of input and output controls, and would be complex to design using just a single Viewsheet. In such cases, it is often easier to use a modular design, and build the final dashboard from a set of simple Viewsheets. Each of the simple Viewsheets might contain just a few controls, and provide specific functionality to the composite dashboard.
Modular designs offer benefits in terms of reusability, because you can deploy your simple Viewsheet modules in multiple dashboard applications. For example, you can create a Viewsheet that contains a simple cluster of Gauges, and then just plug that Viewsheet into any dashboard to provide the dashboard with that Gauge cluster.
Modular design also simplifies maintenance. When you use a Viewsheet in multiple composite dashboards, you can update all of the composite dashboards simultaneously by making changes centrally to the shared module.
To create a composite dashboard, simply nest a set of simple Viewsheets within a parent Viewsheet. The following sections explain how to do this, and how to synchronize the nested Viewsheets to work as a unified whole.
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