Using the Play Selector / Play Control component
The Play Selector component can be used when you want to change chart values or components on a dashboard without having the user do anything. Some common uses where we need an automatic change of components are listed as follows:
A company dashboard presented on a large LCD monitor in a company common room; this dashboard will refresh or switch views every 20-30 seconds
A dashboard at a technical support office that shows information on calls coming in and how they are being handled; this dashboard will change views every 20-30 seconds
In this recipe, we will create a Play Selector component that changes the image every 20 seconds. We can pretend that the images are different dashboards.
Getting ready
Have a set of three images ready on the canvas, and overlay them on top of each other.
Tip
There are three dashboard images that you may use for this example. They are hr1.png, hr2.png, and hr3.png, and can be found in the images folder.