Directus Insights

Speaker 0: Directus insights allows rapid no code dashboard building to display and act on data. Regardless of your use case, you will be able to set up key metrics from data held in your director's project in just a few clicks. Dashboards can be used for business intelligence, user progress tracking, web traffic conversions, or any other time you need to analyze data within your director's project. Each dash board is made up of panels, building blocks to display and interact with data. They include charts and graphs like bar charts, line charts, meters, pie charts and data lists.

The list panel allows filtering and listing of items from a specified collection. If inline editing is enabled, clicking an item will open a directors editor drawer allowing users to examine each item and edit data directly from the dashboard. Now there are 2 specific built in panels which are very interesting. The global variable and the global relational variable panels. The global variable panel allows you to create a variable which is globally accessible across other panels.

When creating a variable, a key is provided. The value can then be accessed in any other panel by using the mustache syntax with the name of the key in the middle. The global relational variable panel allows for variables to be set by selecting 1 or more items from a collection. A drop down select interface is shown which will open a director's explore draw. The returned value will be a single item ID or an array of IDs if select multiple items is enabled.

You can use this, for example, to create a dynamic filter. Directus insights comes with some baked in panels, but you can always get more straight from the directus marketplace or build your own as an extension and install it in your project. I hope this provides an interesting insight into how director's insights works. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out and we'll see you in the next video.