How to Customize the Data Source Wizard

Jun 06, 2023
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The Data Source Wizard allows you to establish a connection and select data from various sources. You can use the DashboardDesigner.DataSourceWizard property to customize this wizard to skip certain pages, specify the list of available data providers, and so on.

The Data Source Wizard consists of the following main pages:

The first page allows users to specify the name of the data source.
The next page allows users to select the data connection type.

Database

The following page allows users to select connections specified in the application configuration file for the selected data connection type:
If a user selected No, I’d like to specify the connection parameters myself option on the previous page, the following page is shown:
The next page allows users to decide whether user credentials are saved in a dashboard definition.
The final page of the Data Source Wizard allows users to invoke the Query Builder and select data.

Entity Framework

For the Entity Framework data source, the invoked page allows users to select data context.