Creating Storyboards

Storyboards differ from dashboards in a few different ways, but especially in one critical aspect – a dashboard is designed to display results for key organizational metrics (or similar measures), while a storyboard is designed to tell a pre-defined story. For example, a business user will use a dashboard to track a range of key metrics; the same user might use a storyboard to create a story based on very specific information found in the metrics (for example, showing how a single customer has grown over multiple periods, and a storyboard can help split those periods into multiple views).

To create a new story, you click on the New Story button on the menu at the bottom of the workspace. Selecting this button will give us a blank canvas with room for a single worksheet or dashboard. The next step is to drag a worksheet onto the canvas space; any related filters, parameters, and legends will automatically accompany the sheet. As with dashboards, you can...