Analytics widgets

 

This page is about the Analytics widgets included into Elementi 2025.

Introduction

Analytics widgets icon

Analytics widgets are a category of SpinetiX data-driven widgets designed to display data visualizations and insights from business intelligence platforms. These widgets enable users to integrate dashboards, charts, and reports directly into their digital signage content, making it easier to communicate key performance indicators (KPIs), trends, and metrics in real time.

Use cases:

• Displaying sales performance dashboards in retail stores
• Sharing operational KPIs in manufacturing environments
• Visualizing financial metrics in corporate offices
• Monitoring service performance in customer support centers

Currently, this category includes support for Microsoft Power BI, with more integrations planned for the future.

Power BI widget

Power BI widget icon

The Power BI widget allows you to embed live Power BI reports and dashboards into your Elementi projects. This is ideal for organizations that rely on Power BI for business analytics and want to securely share insights across their digital signage network.

Key features:

• Display live Power BI dashboards and reports
• Secure access via Microsoft account authentication
• Support for dashboards and reports from your workspaces or from direct link sharing

Requirements

• A valid SpinetiX cloud account (Enterprise plan).
• A Microsoft account with a Power BI Pro or Premium Per User (PPU) license, connected to your SpinetiX cloud account.
• Elementi 2025 or later.
• The Elementi project must be linked and published to a SpinetiX cloud account.
• The designated players must be linked to the same SpinetiX cloud account and must run at least DSOS 4.8.6, preferably the latest DSOS version.

Secure data access

Microsoft Power BI data can be accessed via the "Connectors" service, which is part of the SpinetiX Hub platform. To ensure that data is securely transmitted and displayed, you need to designate a SpinetiX cloud account that will maintain the connection to your Power BI data.

 

See step-by-step instructions on how to add a Power BI connector to your cloud account, here.

Get started

1. Click the "Projects" tab in the Browse panel.
2. Create a new Elementi project or open an existing one. Make sure your project is linked to a SpinetiX cloud account.
3. The project's main index file is opened by default. If needed, open the file that should contain the “Power BI” widget.
4. Click the "Widgets" tab in the Browse panel to find all the collections of widgets included with your Elementi version/type.
   

   

   Elementi 2025 X widgets

5. Double-click the "Analytics" collection and find the widgets delivered with Elementi.
   

   

   Analytics widgets

6. Select the “Power BI” widget.
7. Drag that widget from the Browse panel and drop it into the Edit panel (or the Preview panel) to create a new media layer within the opened document. The built-in widget is automatically copied into your project files.
8. Double-click the widget's layer in the Edit panel to find its properties.
9. Configure the widget's properties and layout to display your data.

Configuration

The Power BI widget can be customized using the options provided under the "Properties" tab:

Power BI widget properties

• Data

  Click the button to set up the data source.

• Locale

  Select the locale used for displaying dates and numbers.

• Page

  Click the button to edit the properties of the Web Page layer displaying the report/dashboard.

Data source setup

• Account

  Select an existing connection to Power BI from the list, or click "Connect account..." and follow the on-screen instructions to authorize the SpinetiX app to access your data.

Workspace content

Power BI widget - Data Properties dialog

• Workspace

  Select the workspace containing the dashboard/report to show. It can be one of your workspaces (except for the default “My workspace”) or one shared with you.

• Type

  Select between “Dashboard” and “Report”.

• Dashboard

  Select the dashboard to display.

• Report

  Select the report to display.

• Page

  Select “All” or a specific page of the report to display.

• Page duration

  Enter the number of seconds each page is displayed on the screen.

Direct link sharing

When someone has shared a Power BI report or dashboard with you, you must first check that the link you received starts with https://app.powerbi.com/groups/{ID}/dashboards/... or https://app.powerbi.com/groups/{ID}/reports/...; where the {ID} can be “me” or a lengthy ID made of several groups of hexadecimal digits.

Example of a shared report URL

If it's not the case, for instance, the URL starts with https://app.powerbi.com/links/... or it is completely different because your organization uses a tool for URL scanning and rewriting, such as Safe Links of Microsoft Defender for Office 365, then, you must do the following:

1. Open the link you received in your browser.
2. Sign in with your existing Power BI account.
3. Check that you can view the report/dashboard, and that the URL in the address bar has the format mentioned above.
4. Copy the URL from your browser address field.

Then, within Elementi:

Power BI widget - Data Properties dialog for shared report

1. Click the button labeled “Click here if you have a URL for a shared report or dashboard...”.
2. In the popup dialog, paste the Power BI report/dashboard URL having the format mentioned above.
3. Click 🆗.
4. If the URL is correct, the “Workspace” field is set to “<me>” or a long ID, the “Type” field to “Report” or “Dashboard”, and the “Report”/“Dashboard” field underneath it to a long ID.
5. In case of a report, select “All” or a specific page to display, and the duration for each page.
6. Click 🆗 to visualize the report/dashboard on the Preview panel.

See also

• Elementi 2025 Widgets
• Data-driven widgets
• Data feeds
• Widgets