Creating Dashboard with Flow Layout

This topic guides you through the steps to create a lead conversion dashboard using flow layout. It displays the lead conversion ratio, sales in different countries in a pie chart, and sales details of companies in a FlexgGrid.

Dashboard Flow Layout

Create a new Windows Forms App.
In the Windows Forms Designer, set the height of the form to 730 and width to 550.
Drag and drop the C1DashboardLayout control from the Toolbox onto your form.
Observe: By default, a layout of the type Split is attached to it.
Select the C1DashboardLayout control. In the Properties window, set the following properties:
Property Name
Value
LayoutType
Flow
Dock
Fill
Styles > Common > Padding
5
Styles > ItemContainer > Margins
5

Property Name	Value
LayoutType	Flow
Dock	Fill
Styles > Common > Padding	5
Styles > ItemContainer > Margins	5

5. Click inside the C1DashboardLayout control. The FlowContentPanel (layout control attached to C1DashboardLayout) is selected.

Observe: By default, the FlowContentPanel contains two child containers named Panel1 and Panel3 of the type Panel. Panel1 positions itself at the upper left corner of the FlowContentPanel since its FlowDirection property is set to LeftToRight by default and Panel3 positions itself next to Panel1, maintaining the default LeftToRight flow direction as the width of C1DashboardLayout has not yet exhausted.

6. Select Panel1 and set the following properties.

Property	Value
Size	360, 240
Caption on c1DashboardLayout1	Lead Conversion Ratio

7. Drag and drop a Label control on Panel1 and set the following properties:

Property Name	Value
Location	80, 80
Text	13:1
Font size	35

Now, drag and drop another Label control on Panel1 and set the following properties:

Property Name	Value
Location	85, 135
Text	Unqualified Leads turned into customers
Font > Size	35

8. Select Panel3 and set the following properties:

Property Name	Value
Size	380,240
Caption on c1DashboardLayout1	Country Sales

9. Drag and drop a FlexPie on Panel3 and set the following properties:

Property Name	Value
Dock	Fill
BindingName	CountryName
Binding	OpportunityCount

10. Add a class named CountrySales.cs to the project and copy the following code to it to add data for FlexPie.

public class CountrySales
{
    public CountrySales(string countryName, int opportunityCount)
    {
        CountryName = countryName;
        OpportunityCount = opportunityCount;
    }
    public CountrySales() { }
    public string CountryName { get; set; }
    public int OpportunityCount { get; set; }
    public List<CountrySales> GetData()
    {
        string[] countryNames = {"Germany", "India", "Japan", "UK" , "US" };
        List<CountrySales> countrySalesList = new List<CountrySales>();
        Random random = new Random();
        for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
            countrySalesList.Add(new CountrySales(countryNames[i],random.Next(0,30)));
        return countrySalesList;
    }
}

Public Class CounTrySales
    Public  Sub New(ByVal counTryName As String, ByVal opportunityCount As Integer)
        CounTryName = counTryName
        OpportunityCount = opportunityCount
    End Sub
    Public  Sub New()
    End Sub
    Public Property CounTryName() As String
    End Property
    Public Property OpportunityCount() As Integer
    End Property
    Public List<  New> Sub GetData()
        Dim counTryNames() As String = {"Germany", "India", "Japan", "UK" , "US"}
        Dim counTrySalesList As List<CounTrySales> =  New List<CounTrySales>() 
        Dim random As Random =  New Random() 
            Dim i As Integer
            For  i = 0 To  5- 1  Step  i + 1
                counTrySalesList.Add(New CounTrySales(counTryNames(i),random.Next(0,30)))
            Next
        Return counTrySalesList
    End Sub
End Class

Add the following code to the Form1_Load event to populate the pie with data.

CountrySales countrySales = new CountrySales();
List<CountrySales> countrySalesList = countrySales.GetData();
flexPie1.DataSource = countrySalesList;

Dim counTrySales As CounTrySales =  New CounTrySales() 
Dim counTrySalesList As List<CounTrySales> =  counTrySales.GetData() 
flexPie1.DataSource = counTrySalesList

Drag and drop the C1FlexGrid control on the DashboardLayout and set its Dock property to Fill.
Observe: A child container named Panel5 is created under the C1FlexGrid control. As the WrapContents property of FlowContentPanel is set to true and the width of C1DashboardLayout has exhausted, the child container containing the FlexGrid is wrapped to the next row which would have been clipped otherwise.
Select Panel5 and set the following properties.

Property Name	Value
Size	435,240
Caption on c1DashboardLayout1	Sales Details

Add a class named SalesDetails.cs to the project and copy the following code to it to add data for FlexGrid.

public class SalesDetails
{
    public SalesDetails(string companyName, double salesValue, double weighted,string salesStage)
    {
        CompanyName = companyName;
        SalesValue = salesValue;
        Weighted = weighted;
        SalesStage = salesStage;
    }
    public SalesDetails() { }
    public string CompanyName { get; set; }
    public double SalesValue { get; set; }
    public double Weighted { get; set; }
    public string SalesStage { get; set; }
    public List<SalesDetails> GetData()
    {
        string[] companyNames = { "Agilent Technologies", "Belo Co.", "Calpine Co.", "Crompton Corp.", "Exelon Inc.", "Delphi Corp.", "Ferro Co.","Gateway Inc.","Harris Corp."};
        string[] salesStages={"Qualified", "Lead", "Qualified", "Proposal", "Negotiation", "Won", "Lost","Lead","Proposal"};
        List<SalesDetails> salesDetailsList = new List<SalesDetails>();
        Random random = new Random();
        for(int i=0;i<9;i++)
        {
            salesDetailsList.Add(new SalesDetails(companyNames[i],random.Next(0,10000), random.Next(1,10000),salesStages[i]));
        }
        return salesDetailsList;
    }
}

Public Class SalesDetails
    Public  Sub New(ByVal companyName As String, ByVal salesValue As Double, ByVal weighted As Double, ByVal salesStage As String)
        CompanyName = companyName
        SalesValue = salesValue
        Weighted = weighted
        SalesStage = salesStage
    End Sub
    Public  Sub New()
    End Sub
    Public Property CompanyName() As String
    End Property
    Public Property SalesValue() As Double
    End Property
    Public Property Weighted() As Double
    End Property
    Public Property SalesStage() As String
    End Property
    Public List<New> Sub GetData()
        Dim companyNames() As String = {"Agilent Technologies", "Belo Co.", "Calpine Co.", "Crompton Corp.", "Exelon Inc.", "Delphi Corp.", "Ferro Co.","Gateway Inc.","Harris Corp."}
        Dim salesStages() As String = {"Qualified", "Lead", "Qualified", "Proposal", "Negotiation", "Won", "Lost","Lead","Proposal"}
        Dim salesDetailsList As List<SalesDetails> =  New List<SalesDetails>() 
        Dim random As Random =  New Random() 
        Dim i As Integer
        For  i = 0 To 9- 1  Step i + 1
            salesDetailsList.Add(New SalesDetails(companyNames(i),random.Next(0,10000),random.Next(1,10000),salesStages(i)))
        Next
        Return salesDetailsList
    End Sub
End Class

Add the following code to Form1_Load event to populate the grid with data.

SalesDetails salesDetails = new SalesDetails();
List<SalesDetails> salesDetailsList = salesDetails.GetData();
c1FlexGrid1.DataSource = salesDetailsList;

Dim salesDetails As SalesDetails =  New SalesDetails() 
Dim salesDetailsList As List<SalesDetails> =  salesDetails.GetData() 
c1FlexGrid1.DataSource = salesDetailsList

Select C1DasboardLayout and in the Properties window, navigate to C1DashboardLayout > Styles > Common > BackColor property and set it to LightSteelBlue.

Note: If the BackColor property of C1DashboardLayout is set before adding child containers to it, the child containers inherit back color of the parent container. Therefore, changing the back color of C1DashboardLayout after adding child containers does not affect the child containers back color.

The sales conversion dashboard gets created.