Building Dashboards > Working with Ready Dashboard > Dashboard Export
Tool interfaces in the web application and in the desktop application are identical, and differences in functionality are given in appropriate comments.
To export:
Dashboard. Select the Export main menu item and select the required export format.
Selected object:
Display object control buttons:
Point the mouse cursor on the top right corner of the block:
The object controls will be displayed, for example:
Click the 
button and in the menu that opens select the Export item.
Select the required export format.
In the desktop application the dialog box to select export folder and to set up file name, in the web application the dashboard will be exported to download folder of browser in use.
Available export formats:
Excel Workbook (*.xlsx).
Excel 97-2003 Workbook (*.xls).
OpenDocument Spreadsheet (*.ods). It is available only for export of a single block containing the Reports tool in the web application.
PDF Document (*.pdf).
RTF Document (*.rtf).
Web Page (*.html).
Web Page, single file archive (*.mht).
EMF image (*.emf).
Image (*.png).
PowerPoint Presentation (*.pptx).
Dashboard (*.ppdash).
NOTE. The PPDASH format is an internal format of Foresight Analytics Platform and is used to download the dashboard to local file to continue work without connection with repository.
Export to other formats can be implemented at the application level.
Depending on the selected format the following export features can be determined:
The Indicator visualizer, interactive controls, labels, pictures, HTML contents and plugins are available only on dashboard export to PNG.
If a block contains the Dashboard tool, export of dashboard to any of the formats is unavailable.
The blocks containing the Reports tool are not exported with other block types.
All blocks are exported with elements selection defined for them.
If a block contains a title and is placed on several pages on export, the block title is used as a header.
Sparklines are exported only to the formats: PDF, EMF, PPDASH.
When a dashboard is exported to the PPDASH format, the Time Series reports are exported. On the next opening the dashboard from the PPDASH file the corresponding blocks will be empty.
On exporting of a dashboard to PDF and PPTX formats, block size is adjusted according to the set page parameters.
TIP. To set up page parameters, go to the Document side panel tab.
On exporting a dashboard containing footnotes in the Table visualizer, remember that:
Footnotes are exported only to the following formats: PDF, EMF, RTF, XLS, XLSX. On exporting to RTF format footnote numbers are ordered by pages: from the first to the last.
On exporting to XLS or XLSX:
By default, footnotes are not exported. Footnote numbers are exported if corresponding settings are determined by means of Fore. Footnote text is not exported.
Format of the cells containing footnotes will be changed to text. In this case:
A chart look may differ from that in the original workbook.
Formulas, for which footnotes are set, are displayed as text.
Formulas, which refer to cells with footnotes, are not calculated.
See also:
Export to XLS or XLSX files