Using lenses to create a CRMA analytics dashboard

Lenses can be used to create a dashboard, or added to an existing dashboard, using the Clip function. While we are going to look at dashboard building in detail later in Chapter 8, Building Your First CRMA Dashboard, we will quickly look at how to create a simple dashboard and add the two lenses we created earlier. Follow these steps:

1. Open the My First Lens, My First Table View, and Service Data Analysis lenses.
2. From the CRMA Analytics Studio home page, click on Create and select Dashboard.
3. Select Blank Dashboard.
4. For each lens, go to the lens, click on the Clip to Designer button that has a scissors icon, ensure the lens will be exported as a widget, and click on Clip to Designer.

Go to the blank dashboard, which is called New dashboard by default. Save the dashboard as Lens Clip.

5. Drag the three clipped lenses – which are now on the right-hand side of your dashboard designer as queries ...