Configuring and formatting Number card with Bold BI

The Number Card widget is a very useful widget that allows you to showcase a single value or a series of measure values to the users in the dashboard. The key metrics such as total sales amount, number of page visits, current month goal, etc, are generally displayed in the card widgets.

The visualization of the number card widget is customizable, and you can format the values displayed in the widget using the provided options.

a) Multiple single number card widget in the GitHub dashboard.

b) Series of Number Card widget.

How to configure data into the Number Card widget

To showcase a Number Card, a minimum requirement of one measure value is needed.

The following procedure illustrates data configuration of the card:

1. Drag the Number Card control icon from the tool box into the design panel. You can find the control in the tool box by search.

2. Click Data Sources icon in the configuration panel.

3. Click CREATE NEW to launch a new connection from the connection-type panel.

4. In the connection-type panel, click any one of the listed connection type buttons shown. Here, the Microsoft Excel connection type is selected for demonstration.

5. In the NEW DATA SOURCE configuration panel, enter the required details.

6. Click Preview & Connect. Now, the Choose Table(s) dialog will be shown.

7. After selecting the required tables, click Connect.

8. Drag your preferred table from the left pane to the data design view and click Save. Now, the data source is successfully created.

9. Click the Properties icon in the configuration panel. The properties panel of the widget will be displayed as shown in the following screenshot.

10. Now, switch to the ASSIGN DATA tab. The data pane lists the available measures and dimensions from the data source.

Single number card

Drop the measure field data into the Measure section.

Now, the widget is rendered successfully with the default properties and formatting.

You can change the aggregation type of the measure section from the settings menu as shown in the following screenshot. Refer to this section for more details.

NOTE: Refer to the following sections to learn more about how to filter and format data. NOTE: NOTE: Measure filter NOTE: NOTE: Measure Formatting

Series number cards

The Series section allows you to plot a series of cards over the dropped field. In this following example, the team-wise goals are displayed in the card.

Sparkline

You can use the Sparkline section to showcase the variation of measurement in the Number Card widget.

Now, the card will be rendered with the sparkline.

Image

The Image section allows you to configure the image data for each number card/records. The image data may be the direct URL for the records or contains the part of the URL.

Direct URL

In the following example, each country flag is displayed in the number card by configuring the Country Image field. The Country Image column from the data source contains the full URL of the country flag.

Data screenshot

Follow the given steps to show the country image in the Number card series:

1. Configure the Country Image field into the Image section.

2. Make sure whether the pattern text is properly updated. Now, the widget will be rendered with image data.

Partial Image data

If your data source contains the partial data of the URL, enter the URL text with the proper patterns. For example, consider the following data source.

It contains the Players name and part of their image URL in the above columns. The full Image URL for Cristiano Ronaldo is https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Cristiano_Ronaldo_2018.jpg/345px-Cristiano_Ronaldo_2018.jpg and the Player Image Column contains the information commons/thumb/8/8c/Cristiano_Ronaldo_2018.jpg/345px-Cristiano_Ronaldo_2018.jpg. So, you should enter the URL as https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/{0}, where the {0} indicates the first field in the image section.

NOTE: - You can add any number of fields in the image section and need to append {0}, {1} for the 1st, 2nd fields configured in the image section. NOTE: - If more than one data is available in the record, the first record with the highest measure will be displayed in the Number Card widget.

For example, if you try to show the Goals of each team and configure the player image in the image section. It will show top scorer image of each team as shown in the following screenshot.

Configure Image Section

Update Image Pattern

Final view

NOTE: The image will be hidden automatically, if the width of the number card is low. An information icon will display the message as highlighted in the following image.

Background image

Like the image option, you can also configure the background image of the Number Card.

Plot Area

Plot area option allows you to choose whether the background needs to apply for the whole Number Card or except the image data. You can find the difference from the following images.

Card background

Complete

How to format the Number Card widget

To format the properties of the Number Card widget, switch to the PROPERTIES tab.

General properties

The following highlighted section in the image allows you to modify the widgets name, subtitle, and to add useful description.

The following screenshot shows the Number Card widget, after modifying the header properties.

Measure properties

Show Measure

You can also toggle the measure card visibility in the Number Card widget by using the Show Measure check box.

From the measure property section, you can customize the font size and color of the measure values displayed in the Number Card widget.

The following image shows the Number Card widget, after modifying the color and font size of the measure value.

Title properties

You can customize the font color and size of the title. You can also enable or disable the title.

The following image shows the Number Card widget after modifying the color and font size of the title value.

The following image shows the Number Card widget after unchecking the title value.

Image properties

Show Image

If the Show Image check box is unchecked, then the image is not displayed in the Number Card.

Image Mode

You can customize the image showcase style through the ode setting.

Default: The image will be displayed in its original size.

Fill: The image will be filled in the available space.

Uniform to fill: The image will be uniformly occupying the space but gets clipped, if it is larger than control.

Uniform: The image sizes proportionally (without clipping) to best fit to the widget area.

Image

Browse Image

You can browse the image from the local system.

URL

You can enter the direct URL of the image.

Pattern

You can use the pattern as explained in the Image data section.

Background properties

Background Image

The background image properties are same as the Number card’s image properties.

Background color

Allows you to set a solid color as the background and to change the transparency of the color.

NOTE: If both the background image and background color are enabled in the widget, then based on the transparency of the background image and the selected image mode, either the background image alone will appear in the widget or both the background color and image will appear in the Number Card.

Sparkline properties

Sparkline in the Number Card widget can be turned off by unchecking the Show Sparkline check box. The color of the sparkline and the transparency can be customized using the provided options.

URL linking

You can navigate to the related web page by clicking the image widget and providing the valid URL in the URL textbox. This section provides more details about the URL linking.

Filter interaction properties

The Number Card widget can be set to act as a master widget by selecting the Act as Master Widget check box. Enabling the Ignore Filter Actions check box, enable the Number Card widget not to be filtered by any other master widgets during the interaction time in both preview and published modes.

NOTE: Act as Master Widget check box will be enabled only when the Series section is configured.

Container properties

Container options allow you to choose the container settings such as color, border, and to enable export, and comment check boxes by setting the proper values. To learn more about commenting options, refer to this link.

NOTE: The exporting options, title container properties, commenting, and view data options are available only when the Series is configured.

Related links

Blog post - https://www.boldbi.com/blog/turn-on-insights-using-the-right-card-widget