Widgets

A widget is a piece of software that occupies a portion of the user interface. In Touchstone, widgets work with data that you retrieve via the Data Selector. By default, Touchstone displays the Analysis Summary table (a type of widget) when you open Geospatial Analysis results; the initial results are for the entire exposure view against which you ran the analysis. While the Analysis Summary is a table widget, you can also create chart widgets. You can create many different widgets to analyze your data. If you create a widget for a Workers' Compensation analysis; the Data Selector will show Workers' Compensation data under Exposure Values.

Related topics

•       Creating a Basic Widget

•       Creating an Advanced Widget

•       Deleting Widgets

•       Reusing Widgets

•       Exporting Widget Data

Usage notes

•       When you close Touchstone, all widgets disappear.

•       While Touchstone stacks the widgets on top of one another, you can resize them and move them around.

•       If you close widgets and want to re-open them, you can select them in the View Options window accessible via the sidebar. After re-opening a widget, you display the associated Data Selector by clicking the menu icon in the chart or table and then selecting Data Selector.

•       The master filter is a collection of all the filters that the user has created and that are subscribed to the master filter. To view the master filter, click Manage Filters.

•       By default, all widgets are subscribed to the master filter. Changes to the master filter result  in changes to all subscribed widgets.

•       To stop getting filter updates to a widget, you must unsubscribe it from the master filter; the Map widget is the only widget that cannot be unsubscribed.

•       Filtering by map extent or by shapes does not create filters that can be subscribed to the master filter.

•       The master filter only updates interactive widgets that are subscribed to it. The following example illustrates the effect of the subscription status on widgets. If you update a subscribed widget, such as the Construction Codes widget, it updates the master filter, which in turn updates all the subscribed filters (in this example, the Map, Analysis Summary, and Perils); it does not update the Postal Codes widget.