We would like to use the GoodData plugin system to build a custom visualization/widget that our customers can use in dashboards. The widget would be a label of sorts. The default functionality would be that users can select an attribute, and the widget displays the value in the ‘body’, with the attribute name as a header. In order for users to use this widget in a dashboard, I would expect to be able to add it to the list of current visualization types in the Analytics Designer, and that the user could drag in an attribute to populate the widget. Is this actually possible with the plugin system? If not, are there alternative ways to achieve this?

Hello Eoghan, This is certainly possibly using custom visualizations. This involves defining a new visualization type that behaves as you described, where users can select an attribute, and the widget displays its value with a header.

Thanks for confirming Joseph. I had read through the custom visualizations docs but it’s unclear from those how to get a custom viz working with the Analytics Designer. But if it’s definitely possible, then I’m sure we can figure it out - or at least try and come back here with questions.

Is there a tutorial that end-to-end gets a custom visual deployed into GoodData?

@Eoghan Bonass, unfortunately, the docs don't exactly cover adding it to the list of new visualizations. I can double-check this internally though. As for running the AD locally, it is possible. Are you looking to embed the full AD into your app?

Hey Eoghan, currently it is not possible to create and add a custom VIZ to Analytical Designer as another type of VIZ users could choose from using the plugin system or any other method. You can use the plugin system which we call Dashboard plugins to customize dashboards - all the capabilities of dashboard plugins are described here: https://www.gooddata.com/docs/gooddata-ui/latest/references/dashboard_component/dashboard_plugins/ https://github.com/gooddata/gooddata-ui-sdk/tree/master/tools/plugin-toolkit Some examples here: https://www.gooddata.com/docs/cloud/create-dashboards/plugins/#time-granularity-switch

So in theory if I have run the dashboard plugin init to scaffold a sample project, it runs locally getting the Hello World text to appear on the dashboard. Then I upload all of the built esm/dashboardPlugin to and S3 bucket, make that bucket public and enabled Web Hosting. I then run the add-plugin and link-plugin and I still don’t get the hello world plug-in working on the GD Cloud. Dashboard Plugins should work on GD Cloud right? I don’t need to embed my dashboard in another React App right?

@Josh Peak you probably need to set a CSP

script-src

directive for your domain in Settings > Developer for your GoodData instance.

Oh!!! I’ll give that a try. I only did the CORS.

@Josh Peak thanks for mentioning that it has been resolved and what was the problem!