Today we’re launching an update that adds two new user types that give you more control over who has access to specific dashboards and features within Geckoboard. We’ve also given our Admin area a major overhaul to make important account-related tasks more straightforward.
Read more detail about these changes here or explore the new layout by clicking ‘Admin’ whilst logged in!
We’ve made it much easier for developers to pull data from a database and visualize it in Geckoboard using our Datasets API. SQL-Dataset is a command line app that makes integrating your MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite database with Geckoboard as simple as filling out a config file, removing the need to work with client libraries or write bespoke code.
Get started with SQL-Dataset here and start sending metrics from your database in minutes!
Our dashboards are designed for the wall of your office, to share key metrics with your whole team. To make widget titles easier to read from a distance we’ve increased their size on all new dashboards.
The size of titles on existing dashboards will remain unchanged, but you can switch over to the larger titles by checking “Use large widget titles” in your dashboard’s settings.
We’ve just launched a new, much easier way to display your dashboards on a TV! When logged in, the new ‘Screens’ option at the top of your account now allows you to securely pair a screen without having to type in a long sharing link into your TV. Once paired, you can now instantly change which dashboard from your account is displayed on your screen without having to type in a new sharing link or visit your screen.
For anyone using one of our recommended devices for running a browser on a TV we’ve also launched a Chrome OS app that makes it much easier to boot directly into your dashboards, removing the need to reconfigure your TV each and every morning.
Read more about what’s new in our launch post, or click ‘Screens’ the next time you log into Geckoboard to try it out.
Stripe, as one of the market leaders in online payments, needs no introduction. Our new Stripe integration lets you show metrics relating to your charges, subscriptions, and balance.
We’ve just added a new integration with ChartMogul. ChartMogul help you to make sense of your subscription business, computing a load of key metrics such as MRR, ARR, and churn for a wide range of billing systems. Our integration lets you pull those useful metrics straight onto your dashboard as either a number or a line chart.
Learn more in their post here.
Next time you log in to Geckoboard, you’ll see a new People option in the app’s header.
From here, you can add colleagues to your Geckoboard account so they can create dashboards of their own, or help you create yours.
You’re also able to view a list of all the collaborators in your account, and remove people who no longer need access.
Finally, if you need to manage read-only users or per-dashboard access rights, just hit the Advanced settings link to go back to the old user management tools. We’ll be migrating these features to the new People section over time.
We’ve rolled out lower-than goals to the Line, Bar and Column charts. They’re available on the Spreadsheets, Salesforce, and Datasets integrations.
Lots of our customers use the Datasets API to pull data into Geckoboard from their own database, so I’m pleased to say we now support sending NULL values to a Dataset.
Any of the numeric field types (number, percentage, or money) can accept NULL values. You’ll need to specify in your schema that you want a field to accept NULL values by setting the optional parameter:
"fields":{
"customers":{
"type": "number",
"name": "Customers",
"optional": true
}
}
Dashboards can now scale to fit the screen they’re on when set to full screen mode. This means your dashboard will make the most of all the screen real-estate available on your HD or 4K display, no matter how many widgets you have.
New dashboards will do this automatically when full screen mode is activated. For existing dashboards where you may want to keep the old full screen behaviour, we’ve given you the option to activate this on a dashboard-by-dashboard basis. You can choose to enable scale to fit in Dashboard Settings by checking ‘Scale to fit display when full screen’.