Create an Analytical Dashboard via UI5 Web Components for React

To make things easier, first import all the components you will need in this step. Just copy the code below and replace the previous imported components in MyApp.jsx.

import {
  Avatar,
  Card,
  Text,
  ShellBar,
  ShellBarItem,
  List,
  StandardListItem,
  ValueState,
  ProgressIndicator,
  Title,
  TitleLevel,
  FlexBox,
  FlexBoxJustifyContent,
  FlexBoxWrap,
  FlexBoxDirection,
  AnalyticalTable,
  Icon
} from "@ui5/webcomponents-react";

The ShellBar is the central navigation element in your Web Application and should therefore be visible on all pages.

Again, you can try it out on the Storybook.

1. Start with adding the ShellBar above your Card component and add a primaryTitle prop.

   <ShellBar primaryTitle="My App" />
   

2. Add some more properties

   The logo of the application should be displayed and also a profile picture would be nice.

   Use the logo and profile prop to achieve this. The logo prop accepts either an img tag or the Avatar component, the profile prop only accepts the Avatar component. First add the logo prop like this:

    <ShellBar logo={<img src="" />} primaryTitle="My App" />
   

   Then pass the profile prop like this:

   <ShellBar
     logo={<img src="" />}
     profile={<Avatar image="" />}
     primaryTitle="My App"
   />
   

   You can use your own image, use an URL to an image or simply download the images below and add them to your public folder in your project.

   reactLogo.png

   profilePictureExample.png

   <ShellBar
     logo={<img src="reactLogo.png" />}
     profile={<Avatar image="profilePictureExample.png" />}
     primaryTitle={"My App"}  
   />
   

3. Add custom elements

   By passing a ShellBarItem as child you are able to add custom elements to your ShellBar. The element is basically a Button with responsive behavior and styling adapted to the ShellBar.

   <ShellBar
     logo={<img src="reactLogo.png" />}
     profile={<Avatar image="profilePictureExample.png" />}
     primaryTitle={"My App"}>
      <ShellBarItem icon="add" text="Add" />
   </ShellBar>
   

   That is strange – when you render your component, the ShellBarItem is not shown.

   Every Icon that is used in a component has to be imported manually. All available icons can be found here.

   Add this line to your imports:

   import "@ui5/webcomponents-icons/dist/add.js";
   

   Now your ShellBarItem shows up at the right side of the ShellBar.

   

Your component should look like this:

import React, { useState } from "react";
import {
  Avatar,
  Card,
  Text,
  ShellBar,
  ShellBarItem,
  List,
  StandardListItem,
  ValueState,
  ProgressIndicator,
  Title,
  TitleLevel,
  FlexBox,
  FlexBoxJustifyContent,
  FlexBoxWrap,
  FlexBoxDirection,
  AnalyticalTable,
  Icon
} from "@ui5/webcomponents-react";
import { spacing } from "@ui5/webcomponents-react-base";
import { BarChart, LineChart } from "@ui5/webcomponents-react-charts";
import "@ui5/webcomponents-icons/dist/line-chart.js";
import "@ui5/webcomponents-icons/dist/horizontal-bar-chart.js";
import "@ui5/webcomponents-icons/dist/add.js";
import "@ui5/webcomponents-icons/dist/list.js";
import "@ui5/webcomponents-icons/dist/table-view.js";

export function MyApp() {
  const [toggleCharts, setToggleCharts] = useState("lineChart");
  const [loading, setLoading] = useState(false);
  const contentTitle =
    toggleCharts === "lineChart" ? "Line Chart" : "Bar Chart";
  const switchToChart =
    toggleCharts === "lineChart" ? "Bar Chart" : "Line Chart";

  const handleHeaderClick = () => {
    if (toggleCharts === "lineChart") {
      setLoading(true);
      setTimeout(() => {
        setLoading(false);
        setToggleCharts("barChart");
      }, 2000);
    } else {
      setLoading(true);
      setTimeout(() => {
        setLoading(false);
        setToggleCharts("lineChart");
      }, 2000);
    }
  };
  const dataset = [
    {
      month: "January",
      data: 65
    },
    {
      month: "February",
      data: 59
    },
    {
      month: "March",
      data: 80
    },
    {
      month: "April",
      data: 81
    },
    {
      month: "May",
      data: 56
    },
    {
      month: "June",
      data: 55
    },
    {
      month: "July",
      data: 40
    }
  ];
  return (
    <div>
      <ShellBar
        logo={<img src="reactLogo.png" />}
        profile={<Avatar image="profilePictureExample.png" />}
        primaryTitle="My App"
      >
        <ShellBarItem icon="add" text="Add" />
      </ShellBar>
        <Card
          avatar={
            <Icon
              name={
                toggleCharts === "lineChart"
                  ? "line-chart"
                  : "horizontal-bar-chart"
              }
            />
          }
          heading="Stock Price"
          style={{ width: "300px" }}
          headerInteractive
          onHeaderClick={handleHeaderClick}
          subheading={`Click here to switch to ${switchToChart}`}
        >
          <Text style={spacing.sapUiContentPadding}>{contentTitle}</Text>
          {toggleCharts === "lineChart" ? (
            <LineChart
              dimensions={[{ accessor: "month" }]}
              measures={[{ accessor: "data", label: "Stock Price" }]}
              dataset={dataset}
              loading={loading}
            />
          ) : (
            <BarChart
              dimensions={[{ accessor: "month" }]}
              measures={[{ accessor: "data", label: "Stock Price" }]}
              dataset={dataset}
              loading={loading}
            />
          )}
        </Card>
    </div>
  );
}

1. To wrap the List add a Card (right after the first one).

   <Card
       heading="Progress"
       subheading="List"
       style={{ width: "300px" }}
       avatar={<Icon name="list" />}
   >
   </Card>
   

2. Add the list Icon to your imports.

   import "@ui5/webcomponents-icons/dist/list.js";
   

3. Add the List component as child of the Card.

   <List></List>
   

4. To render elements of the list, use the StandardListItem and pass a string as child.

    <List>
      <StandardListItem>Activity 1</StandardListItem>
    </List>
   

5. The user should know the status of the activities. Add the info prop to the StandardListItem. To visualize if the status is neutral, positive or negative, also add the infoState prop.

    <StandardListItem info="finished" infoState={ValueState.Success}>
      Activity 1
    </StandardListItem>
    <StandardListItem info="failed" infoState={ValueState.Error}>
      Activity 2
    </StandardListItem>
   

6. Now add two more activities, one that is almost finished and one which has just started.

   For this we need the ProgressIndicator and Title component. The Title receives the level prop, it is working like the corresponding HTML elements.

   The ProgressIndicator is given two props:

   • value: The value, which indicates the progress
   • valueState: The value-state (color) of the indicator

   <StandardListItem info="in progress" infoState={ValueState.Warning}>
       <Title level={TitleLevel.H5}>Activity 3</Title>
       <ProgressIndicator value={89} valueState={ValueState.Success} />
   </StandardListItem>
   <StandardListItem info="in progress" infoState={ValueState.Warning}>
       <Title level={TitleLevel.H5}>Activity 4</Title>
       <ProgressIndicator value={5} valueState={ValueState.Error} />
   </StandardListItem>
   

7. The components are shown but they don’t fit inside the row and overflow.

   To fix this, first adjust the height of the StandardListItem. Then, pass a style prop to the component to use the default React inlineStyle syntax and then wrap your Title and ProgressIndicator inside of a FlexBox component.
   The FlexBox implements most of the CSS Flexbox behavior without being forced to actually use CSS or other styling methods.

   The finished List component should now look like this:

   <List>
     <StandardListItem info="finished" infoState={ValueState.Success}>
       Activity 1
     </StandardListItem>
     <StandardListItem info="failed" infoState={ValueState.Error}>
       Activity 2
     </StandardListItem>
     <StandardListItem
       info="in progress"
       infoState={ValueState.Warning}
       style={{ height: "80px" }}
     >
       <FlexBox direction={FlexBoxDirection.Column}>
         <Title level={TitleLevel.H5}>Activity 3</Title>
         <ProgressIndicator value={89} valueState={ValueState.Success} />
       </FlexBox>
     </StandardListItem>
     <StandardListItem
       info="in progress"
       infoState={ValueState.Warning}
       style={{ height: "80px" }}
     >
       <FlexBox direction={FlexBoxDirection.Column}>
         <Title level={TitleLevel.H5}>Activity 4</Title>
         <ProgressIndicator value={5} valueState={ValueState.Error} />
       </FlexBox>
     </StandardListItem>
   </List>
   

Now the components inside the card fit (we’ll arrange the cards themselves later):

1. The last tile should contain a AnalyticalTable component. Again, create a Card to wrap the Table and set the max-width to 900px.

   <Card heading="AnalyticalTable" style={{maxWidth: "900px"}} avatar={<Icon name="table-view" />}>
     <AnalyticalTable />
   </Card>
   

   Also import the table-view Icon.

   import "@ui5/webcomponents-icons/dist/table-view.js";
   

2. Add data and columns to the table. The columns prop expects an array of objects that include at least the accessor to the data. The value of Header will be shown as column header.

   You can create your own data or just use the code below and paste it right after the definition of the labels of the chart.

   const tableData = new Array(500).fill(null).map((_, index) => {
     return {
       name: `name${index}`,
       age: Math.floor(Math.random() * 100),
       friend: {
         name: `friend.Name${index}`,
         age: Math.floor(Math.random() * 100)
       }
     };
   });
   
   const tableColumns = [
     {
       Header: "Name",
       accessor: "name" // String-based value accessors!
     },
     {
       Header: "Age",
       accessor: "age"
     },
     {
       Header: "Friend Name",
       accessor: "friend.name"
     },
     {
       Header: "Friend Age",
       accessor: "friend.age"
     }
   ];
   

3. Display the data by replacing the current table with.

   <AnalyticalTable
     data={tableData}
     columns={tableColumns} />
   

   

4. Add more properties

   You can add many more properties to the AnalyticalTable component. For example you can group the columns with groupable, search for entries in a column with filterable, and change the row height with rowHeight.

   The default visible rows count is at 15. This number is a bit to high for a dashboard table. Reduce the visibleRows count to 5 by setting the corresponding prop.

   <AnalyticalTable
     data={tableData}
     columns={tableColumns}
     visibleRows={5}/>
   

At the moment, the dashboard doesn’t really look like a dashboard. The components are way too close to each other and not aligned correctly. Let’s change that.

1. Add padding to each Card and the ShellBar

   To add a padding to the cards, you can use spacing again. Inside of the style property spread the spacing object and append the style. Do this for each Card component.

   <Card
     style={{ width: "300px", ...spacing.sapUiContentPadding }}
     avatar={<Icon name={toggleCharts === "lineChart" ? "line-chart" : "horizontal-bar-chart"} />}
     heading="Stock Price"
     headerInteractive
     onHeaderClick={handleHeaderClick}
     subheading={`Click here to switch to ${switchToChart}`}
   >
   

   <Card heading="Progress" subheading="List" style={{ width: "300px", ...spacing.sapUiContentPadding }} avatar={<Icon name="list" />}>
   

   <Card heading="AnalyticalTable" subheading="List" style={{ width: "900px", ...spacing.sapUiContentPadding }} avatar={<Icon name="table-view" />}>
   

2. Align the elements

   To properly align the tiles, use a FlexBox component and wrap your Cards inside of it. Use the justifyContent prop to center align all elements and wrap to make them move to the next line if not enough space is available, also apply the style prop to add a padding to the whole content area.

   <FlexBox
       justifyContent={FlexBoxJustifyContent.Center}
       wrap={FlexBoxWrap.Wrap} >
       style={spacing.sapUiContentPadding}
       ...
   </FlexBox>
   

Your component should now look like this:

import React, { useState } from "react";
import {
  Avatar,
  Card,
  Text,
  ShellBar,
  ShellBarItem,
  List,
  StandardListItem,
  ValueState,
  ProgressIndicator,
  Title,
  TitleLevel,
  FlexBox,
  FlexBoxJustifyContent,
  FlexBoxWrap,
  FlexBoxDirection,
  AnalyticalTable,
  Icon
} from "@ui5/webcomponents-react";
import { spacing } from "@ui5/webcomponents-react-base";
import { BarChart, LineChart } from "@ui5/webcomponents-react-charts";
import "@ui5/webcomponents-icons/dist/line-chart.js";
import "@ui5/webcomponents-icons/dist/horizontal-bar-chart.js";
import "@ui5/webcomponents-icons/dist/add.js";
import "@ui5/webcomponents-icons/dist/list.js";
import "@ui5/webcomponents-icons/dist/table-view.js";

export function MyApp() {
  const [toggleCharts, setToggleCharts] = useState("lineChart");
  const [loading, setLoading] = useState(false);
  const contentTitle =
    toggleCharts === "lineChart" ? "Line Chart" : "Bar Chart";
  const switchToChart =
    toggleCharts === "lineChart" ? "Bar Chart" : "Line Chart";
  const tableData = new Array(500).fill(null).map((_, index) => {
    return {
      name: `name${index}`,
      age: Math.floor(Math.random() * 100),
      friend: {
        name: `friend.Name${index}`,
        age: Math.floor(Math.random() * 100)
      }
    };
  });

  const tableColumns = [
    {
      Header: "Name",
      accessor: "name" // String-based value accessors!
    },
    {
      Header: "Age",
      accessor: "age"
    },
    {
      Header: "Friend Name",
      accessor: "friend.name"
    },
    {
      Header: "Friend Age",
      accessor: "friend.age"
    }
  ];
  const handleHeaderClick = () => {
    if (toggleCharts === "lineChart") {
      setLoading(true);
      setTimeout(() => {
        setLoading(false);
        setToggleCharts("barChart");
      }, 2000);
    } else {
      setLoading(true);
      setTimeout(() => {
        setLoading(false);
        setToggleCharts("lineChart");
      }, 2000);
    }
  };
  const dataset = [
    {
      month: "January",
      data: 65
    },
    {
      month: "February",
      data: 59
    },
    {
      month: "March",
      data: 80
    },
    {
      month: "April",
      data: 81
    },
    {
      month: "May",
      data: 56
    },
    {
      month: "June",
      data: 55
    },
    {
      month: "July",
      data: 40
    }
  ];
  return (
    <div>
      <ShellBar
        logo={<img src="reactLogo.png" />}
        profile={<Avatar image="profilePictureExample.png" />}
        primaryTitle="My App"
      >
        <ShellBarItem icon="add" text="Add" />
      </ShellBar>
      <FlexBox
        justifyContent={FlexBoxJustifyContent.Center}
        wrap={FlexBoxWrap.Wrap}
        style={spacing.sapUiContentPadding}
      >
        <Card
          avatar={
            <Icon
              name={
                toggleCharts === "lineChart"
                  ? "line-chart"
                  : "horizontal-bar-chart"
              }
            />
          }
          heading="Stock Price"
          style={{ width: "300px" }}
          headerInteractive
          onHeaderClick={handleHeaderClick}
          subheading={`Click here to switch to ${switchToChart}`}
        >
          <Text style={spacing.sapUiContentPadding}>{contentTitle}</Text>
          {toggleCharts === "lineChart" ? (
            <LineChart
              dimensions={[{ accessor: "month" }]}
              measures={[{ accessor: "data", label: "Stock Price" }]}
              dataset={dataset}
              loading={loading}
            />
          ) : (
            <BarChart
              dimensions={[{ accessor: "month" }]}
              measures={[{ accessor: "data", label: "Stock Price" }]}
              dataset={dataset}
              loading={loading}
            />
          )}
        </Card>
        <Card
          heading="Progress"
          subheading="List"
          style={{ width: "300px", ...spacing.sapUiContentPadding }}
          avatar={<Icon name="list" />}
        >
          <List>
            <StandardListItem info="finished" infoState={ValueState.Success}>
              Activity 1
            </StandardListItem>
            <StandardListItem info="failed" infoState={ValueState.Error}>
              Activity 2
            </StandardListItem>
            <StandardListItem
              info="in progress"
              infoState={ValueState.Warning}
              style={{ height: "80px" }}
            >
              <FlexBox direction={FlexBoxDirection.Column}>
                <Title level={TitleLevel.H5}>Activity 3</Title>
                <ProgressIndicator value={89} valueState={ValueState.Success} />
              </FlexBox>
            </StandardListItem>
            <StandardListItem
              info="in progress"
              infoState={ValueState.Warning}
              style={{ height: "80px" }}
            >
              <FlexBox direction={FlexBoxDirection.Column}>
                <Title level={TitleLevel.H5}>Activity 4</Title>
                <ProgressIndicator value={5} valueState={ValueState.Error} />
              </FlexBox>
            </StandardListItem>
          </List>
        </Card>
        <Card
          heading="AnalyticalTable"
          style={{ maxWidth: "900px", ...spacing.sapUiContentPadding }}
          avatar={<Icon name="table-view" />}
        >
          <AnalyticalTable
            data={tableData}
            columns={tableColumns}
            visibleRows={5}
          />
        </Card>
      </FlexBox>
    </div>
  );
}