20.11.2025
15:20
Before migration to 2025 with the new UI and 'Presentation' layer rehaul, on dashborads we could put multiple reports, and by changing the report - dashboards were automatically updated.
Reports on the dashboards were just referencing regular reports.
This had one major benefit - if i had a report containing 5-10 calculated columns, they were defined once, and then that report could be reused in multiple places (it required multiple views, but the data behind was declared once).
After 2025, we have 'data sources' separate for each dashboard and for each report, this forces us to recreate the same data source in multiple places.
Let's say i have 3 dashboards, each for a different department, but all of them are having same calculated columns, just the filter is different - it's a lot of repetition, which earlier was not required. This is basically forcing us to work against DRY.
1. I'd love to have the ability to create data sources for presentation layer, which could be reused - in reports, in dashboards, and in reports/dashboards i'd like to configure just the presentation part.
2. I'd also love to have the ability to create references to existing components, which could be reused on multiple dashboards.
