Category: How To

By default when you input a value in a cell containing DBRs in Canvas, all the DBRs will refresh. From Canvas 2.0 and up, you can now group the DBRs so that when you input a value, only the DBRs of the same group as that input will be refreshed. This could greatly improve the…

This article describes how to make the SUBNM component to sync with the URL whenever it changes. This will also describe how the SUBNM’s initialization works.

This article describes how to repeat two rows for one item using the angular directive, ng-repeat-start:

One of the great feature of Canvas is that the style of your dashboard can be different regardless of viewing it in a web browser or as PDF format.

Beginning with Canvas version 1.2.2, optional libraries will be included within assets folder but will need to be enabled before it can be used. This will involve:

All application folders are stored in the CWAS/webapps folder, by default you have only two applications ROOT and samples. In this article we are going to describe the folders inside the ROOT folder.

When printing a report using Canvas, you can customize as much as you like the PDF output. There are lots of CSS properties that you can use such as CSS Media Queries to update for instance the background color of the PDF. The PDF can be very different from the HTML page.

Canvas includes the accounting.js library. With accounting.js you can do advance formatting for number, money and currency.

With Canvas v1.2, you can now print and schedule a report. Canvas uses the page URL to print a report in PDF. If you do not update the URL, Canvas will always print the report with the default criteria.

To create a new page, it is recommended to use the Page Creator which you can find in the Admin section. Each Canvas application has its own Admin section. In the following example, our application name is training. You can access the Admin section of the training application via the following URL: