Analytics widgets

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

Introduction

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

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 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 have Internet connectivity.

Secure data access

The "Connectors" service is mandatory for the analytics widgets to establish a connection to Power BI. This service is a part of the SpinetiX Hub platform and gives each cloud account its own separate instance to protect data integrity and prevent unauthorized access. It provides a robust authorization mechanism, based on OAuth 2.0 industry-standard protocol, guaranteeing secure access to resources without exposing user credentials.

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. You have step-by-step instructions about how to add a Power BI connector to your cloud account, here.

Warning:

By adding this connection, you allow access to all users of your cloud account to the contents of that connector.

The designated players must be linked to the same SpinetiX cloud account ― at the current stage, that means adding the players in SpinetiX ARYA™ and sending the project to cloud.

Get started

Click the "Projects" tab in the Browse panel.
Create a new Elementi project or open an existing one.
- Make sure to link the project to a SpinetiX cloud account.
The project's main index file is opened by default. If needed, open the one that should contain the “Power BI” widget.
Click the "Widgets" tab in the Browse panel to find the collections of widgets included with your Elementi version/type.
Double-click the "Analytics" collection and find all its built-in widgets.
Select the “Power BI” widget.
Drag that widget from the Browse panel and drop it into the Edit panel (or Preview panel).
The widget file is automatically copied within your opened project and a new media layer is added to the stack.
Double-click the widget layer in the Edit panel to find its properties.
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:

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

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

The URL you receive when someone has shared a Power BI report or dashboard with you through a direct link, cannot be used directly in Elementi. You must first do the following:

Open the link to the report/dashboard in your browser.
Sign in with your existing Power BI account.
Copy the new URL from your browser address field; it starts with: https://app.powerbi.com/groups/me/dashboards/... or https://app.powerbi.com/groups/me/reports/...

Within Elementi:

Click the button labeled “Click here if you have a URL for a shared report or dashboard...”.
In the popup dialog, paste the URL copied from your browser before.
Click 🆗.
If the URL is correct, the “Workspace” field is set to “<me>”, the type accordingly, and the dashboard/report field to a long ID.
In case of a report, select “All” or a specific page to display, and the duration for each page.
Click 🆗 to visualize the report/dashboard on the Preview panel.