Getting started in EJ2 TypeScript Dashboard layout control

9 Mar 202522 minutes to read

This section explains how to create a simple Dashboard Layout control and configure its available functionalities, using the Essential JS 2 quickstart seed repository.

This application is integrated with the webpack.config.js configuration and uses the latest version of the webpack-cli. It requires node v14.15.0 or higher. For more information about webpack and its features, refer to the webpack documentation.

Dependencies

The following list of dependencies is required to use the Dashboard Layout control in your application.

|-- @syncfusion/ej2-layouts
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-base

Set up development environment

Open the command prompt from the required directory, and run the following command to clone the Syncfusion JavaScript (Essential JS 2) quickstart project from GitHub.

CMD
git clone https://github.com/SyncfusionExamples/ej2-quickstart-webpack- ej2-quickstart

After cloning the application in the ej2-quickstart folder, run the following command line to navigate to the ej2-quickstart folder.

CMD
cd ej2-quickstart

Add Syncfusion JavaScript packages

Syncfusion JavaScript (Essential JS 2) packages are available on the npmjs.com public registry. You can install all Syncfusion JavaScript (Essential JS 2) controls in a single @syncfusion/ej2 package or individual packages for each control.

The quickstart application is preconfigured with the dependent @syncfusion/ej2 package in the ~/package.json file. Use the following command to install the dependent npm packages from the command prompt.

npm install

Import the Syncfusion CSS styles

To render the Dashboard Layout control, import the Dashboard Layout and its dependent control’s styles as given below in the ~/src/styles/styles.css file, as shown below:

style.css
@import "../../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-base/styles/material.css";
@import "../../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-layouts/styles/material.css";

Note: To refer the combined control styles, use Syncfusion CRG (Custom Resource Generator) in your application.

Add Dashboard Layout to the application

You can render the Dashboard Layout control in the following two ways.

Adding dashboard element and defining panels property as attributes in the HTML elements directly.
Adding the dashboard element and defining the panels property through script.

Defining panels property through HTML attributes

The panels of the Dashboard layout control can defined through HTML attributes by using the predefined class .e-panel to the control child elements and data attributes for defining the sizeX, sizeY, row and col properties for each panel.

The following sample demonstrates defining of panels by adding child elements within the root element.

[src/index.html]

index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Essential JS 2 Dashboard Layout control</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="resources/favicon.ico" />
    <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
</head>

<body>
    <div style="margin: 50px;">
        <!--element which is going to render the Dashboard Layout-->
        <div id="dashboard_inline">
            <div id="one" class="e-panel" data-row="0" data-col="0" data-sizeX="1" data-sizeY="1">
                <div class="e-panel-container">
                    <div class="content">0</div>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div id="two" class="e-panel" data-row="0" data-col="1" data-sizeX="3" data-sizeY="2">
                <div class="e-panel-container">
                    <div class="content">1</div>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div id="three" class="e-panel" data-row="0" data-col="4" data-sizeX="1" data-sizeY="3">
                <div class="e-panel-container">
                    <div class="content">2</div>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div id="four" class="e-panel" data-row="1" data-col="0" data-sizeX="1" data-sizeY="1">
                <div class="e-panel-container">
                    <div class="content">3</div>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div id="five" class="e-panel" data-row="2" data-col="0" data-sizeX="2" data-sizeY="1">
                <div class="e-panel-container">
                    <div class="content">4</div>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div id="six" class="e-panel" data-row="2" data-col="2" data-sizeX="1" data-sizeY="1">
                <div class="e-panel-container">
                    <div class="content">5</div>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div id="seven" class="e-panel" data-row="2" data-col="3" data-sizeX="1" data-sizeY="1">
                <div class="e-panel-container">
                    <div class="content">6</div>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
</body>

</html>

Now, import the Dashboard Layout control into your app.ts and append it to #dashboard_inline.

[src/app/app.ts]

app.ts
import { DashboardLayout } from '@syncfusion/ej2-layouts';

// initialize Dashboard Layout control
let dashboard: DashboardLayout  = new DashboardLayout ({
    columns: 5
});
// render initialized Dashboard Layout
dashboard.appendTo('#dashboard_inline');

Run the application

Now, use the npm run start command to run the application in the browser.

npm run start

The below output can be achieved by following the steps mentioned above.

index.html
index.ts
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Essential JS 2 Dashboard Layout </title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2 Dashboard Layout Control" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/28.2.3/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/28.2.3/ej2-layouts/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    <div id='container'>
        <!--element which is going to render the Dashboard Layout-->
        <div id="dashboard_inline">
            <div id="one" class="e-panel" data-row="0" data-col="0" data-sizeX="1" data-sizeY="1">
                <div class="e-panel-container">
                    <div class="content">0</div>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div id="two" class="e-panel" data-row="0" data-col="1" data-sizeX="3" data-sizeY="2">
                <div class="e-panel-container">
                    <div class="content">1</div>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div id="three" class="e-panel" data-row="0" data-col="4" data-sizeX="1" data-sizeY="3">
                <div class="e-panel-container">
                    <div class="content">2</div>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div id="four" class="e-panel" data-row="1" data-col="0" data-sizeX="1" data-sizeY="1">
                <div class="e-panel-container">
                    <div class="content">3</div>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div id="five" class="e-panel" data-row="2" data-col="0" data-sizeX="2" data-sizeY="1">
                <div class="e-panel-container">
                    <div class="content">4</div>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div id="six" class="e-panel" data-row="2" data-col="2" data-sizeX="1" data-sizeY="1">
                <div class="e-panel-container">
                    <div class="content">5</div>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div id="seven" class="e-panel" data-row="2" data-col="3" data-sizeX="1" data-sizeY="1">
                <div class="e-panel-container">
                    <div class="content">6</div>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
        <style>
            #container {
                margin: 0 auto;
                width: 500px;
            }

            #dashboard_inline .e-panel .e-panel-container .content {
                vertical-align: middle;
                font-weight: 600;
                font-size: 20px;
                text-align: center;
                line-height: 90px;
            }

            #dashboard_inline .e-panel {
                transition: none !important;
            }
        </style>
</body>

</html>
import { DashboardLayout } from '@syncfusion/ej2-layouts';

// initialize Dashboard Layout control
let dashboard: DashboardLayout = new DashboardLayout({
    cellSpacing: [10, 10],
    columns: 5
});
// render initialized Dashboard Layout
dashboard.appendTo('#dashboard_inline');

Defining panels properties through script

The panels can be defined simply during control initialization at the script section using the panels property of the control.

The following sample demonstrates defining panels property through script section. Here, the panels settings is defined using panels property with same settings as in HTML definition in the previous section.

[src/app/app.ts]

app.ts
import { DashboardLayout } from '@syncfusion/ej2-layouts';

// initialize Dashboard Layout control
let dashboard: DashboardLayout  = new DashboardLayout ({
    cellSpacing: [10, 10],
    columns: 5,
    panels: [{ "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 1, "row": 0, "col": 0, content:'<div class="content">0</div>' },
    { "sizeX": 3, "sizeY": 2, "row": 0, "col": 1, content:'<div class="content">1</div>' },
    { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 3, "row": 0, "col": 4, content:'<div class="content">2</div>' },
    { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 1, "row": 1, "col": 0, content:'<div class="content">3</div>' },
    { "sizeX": 2, "sizeY": 1, "row": 2, "col": 0, content:'<div class="content">4</div>' },
    { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 1, "row": 2, "col": 2, content:'<div class="content">5</div>' },
    { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 1, "row": 2, "col": 3, content:'<div class="content">6</div>' }
    ]
});
// render initialized Dashboard Layout
dashboard.appendTo('#dashboard_default');

The following example shows a basic Dashboard Layout by defining the panels property through script.

index.ts
index.html
import { DashboardLayout } from '@syncfusion/ej2-layouts';

// initialize Dashboard Layout component
let dashboard: DashboardLayout = new DashboardLayout({
    cellSpacing: [10, 10],
    columns: 5,
    panels: [{ "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 1, "row": 0, "col": 0, content: '<div class="content">0</div>' },
    { "sizeX": 3, "sizeY": 2, "row": 0, "col": 1, content: '<div class="content">1</div>' },
    { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 3, "row": 0, "col": 4, content: '<div class="content">2</div>' },
    { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 1, "row": 1, "col": 0, content: '<div class="content">3</div>' },
    { "sizeX": 2, "sizeY": 1, "row": 2, "col": 0, content: '<div class="content">4</div>' },
    { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 1, "row": 2, "col": 2, content: '<div class="content">5</div>' },
    { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 1, "row": 2, "col": 3, content: '<div class="content">6</div>' }
    ]
});
// render initialized Dashboard Layout
dashboard.appendTo('#dashboard_default');
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Essential JS 2 DashboardLayout </title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2 DashboardLayout Control" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/28.2.3/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/28.2.3/ej2-layouts/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    <div id='container'>
        <!--element which is going to render the DashboardLayout-->
        <div id="dashboard_default"></div>
    </div>
    <style>
        #container {
            margin: 0 auto;
            width: 500px;
        }

        #dashboard_default .e-panel .e-panel-container .content {
            vertical-align: middle;
            font-weight: 600;
            font-size: 20px;
            text-align: center;
            line-height: 90px;
        }

        #dashboard_default .e-panel {
            transition: none !important;
        }
    </style>
</body>

</html>

You can refer to our JavaScript Dashboard Layout feature tour page for its groundbreaking feature representations. You can also explore our JavaScript Dashboard Layout example to knows how to present and manipulate data.