What is a layout

"Elara is a platform for generating valuable business insights for business decision-makers from their data. While exporting and sending data in structured file formats is useful, often business decision-makers require business insights to be communicated to them directly in an easy-to-understand format, so that they can make optimized business decisions.

One way to communicate business insights is through the use of web-accessible visualizations, which present business insights in an easy-to-read format. Using Elara, you can generate dashboard visualizations with the use of visual layouts.

Layouts are modular combinations of business insights which you can display in various formats:

Layout	Description
Table	Visualise tabular data as a table
Chart	Visualise tabular data as a chart, leveraging vega-lite specifications
Planner	Visualise temporal tabular data as a gantt, calendar, or timeline
Pivot	Visalise tabular data as a pivot grid/chart
Form	Create a form entry for editable compound (struct) a datastream
Upload	Create a drag/drop upload zone for a writable blob datastream
Panel	Organise layouts into nested rows or columns
Grid	Organise layouts into resizable grid elements
Tab	Organise layouts into tabs
Page	Organise layouts into pages
Accordion	Organise layouts into into an accordion structure

To facilitate creation of layouts, the EDK libraries provide a LayoutBuilder class, which like other builders facilitates typesafe configuration based on datastreams.

Next steps

In the next tutorial, you will use the table() layout to visualise tabular data.