Filters, settings and export

Filters

Filters are defined at the dashboard level and apply to several widgets at once. When you adjust a filter, the affected widgets recompute. You add them from the Filter icon in the toolbar.

Filter types

• Categorical — checkboxes, multi-select or single-select lists, to pick values (e.g. Sex, Ward).
• Numeric — a range slider (min/max). A two-range variant keeps, for instance, two separate age brackets.
• Date — a period (from / to), or a sliding window relative to today (“last 30 days”). Configurable presets (7 d, 30 d, 3 months…) speed up the selection.

Filter scope

By default, a filter applies to all widgets. You can restrict its scope to specific tabs or to specific widgets.

Seeing which widgets are filtered

When a widget is affected by one or more filters, a small funnel icon appears in its top-left corner. On hover, a tooltip lists the filters that apply to it — handy to understand at a glance why a widget only shows part of the data.

Fullscreen

The Fullscreen button in the toolbar makes the dashboard fill the page — ideal for a presentation or a wall display. Esc exits. Combined with the Fit to screen height setting, the content fills the screen without scrolling.

Settings

The Settings icon opens the dashboard’s layout options.

• Show widget titles — show or hide each widget’s title bar.
• Fit to screen height — adapt row height so the tab fits without scrolling (on by default). In this mode, widgets cannot overflow the screen: when you add a new widget, the existing widgets are resized to make room for it. In fullscreen, the widgets’ vertical proportions are preserved (a widget taking 50% of the height keeps 50%, whatever the window size).
• Reload widgets on tab switch — by default, a visited tab keeps its results cached, making switching instant and avoiding re-running R/Python. Turn this on to always recompute.
• Widget spacing — the gap between widgets on the grid.
• Default dataset — the dataset proposed automatically for new widgets, so you do not re-select it each time. You can also assign it to existing widgets in one click — for the current tab or for all tabs — which saves reconfiguring each widget one by one.

Image export

The Export button produces images of the widgets — for an article, a presentation or a report.

• Scope — the current tab or the whole dashboard.
• Selection — tick the widgets to export.
• Format — PNG (raster image, with an adjustable DPI resolution) or SVG (vector, crisp at any size, ideal for charts).
• Result — a single widget downloads directly; several widgets are bundled into a ZIP archive.

Versioning a dashboard

Like the other elements of a project, a dashboard can be versioned: its changes are tracked over time, and the project can be linked to a git repository for history and multi-person work. This mechanism is not specific to dashboards — it applies to the whole project — and is covered on the Versioning page in the Collaborating section.

Deploying a dashboard

A finished dashboard does not have to stay local. Linkr can deploy a project — including pre-loaded data and dashboards — as a static site viewable online, for example on GitLab Pages, with no server to install.