Metric strip
Add a metric-strip panel when four to six figures belong together in one card and share one query.
What you can do
metricsis a list of tiles; each needs alabeland avalueField, and may set its ownagg,format,color, anddescription(a hover tooltip on the value).- Every tile reads the same multi-row result, one row per period, so one query feeds the whole strip; each chip is the percent change between the last two rows of that tile
valueField. layoutisauto(responsive wrap),row(a single scrollable line), orgrid(equal-width columns).- Strip-wide
sparklinesanddeltadefault totrue; a tile sets its ownsparklinesordeltatofalseto opt out;valueFontSize(16 to 64, default 30) andvalueColorstyle every value at once. - Percent columns hold whole numbers: a row value of
108withformat.typepercentagerenders as 108%.
Applies to a metric-strip panel, which must carry a data block; use it when four to six figures belong together in one card, and kpi or stat when one figure should stand alone.
Spec
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{
"id": "q2-summary",
"type": "metric-strip",
"title": "Q2 at a glance",
"data": {
"rows": [
{
"month": "Apr",
"arr": 9300000,
"nrr": 109,
"logos": 14,
"churn": 2.1
},
{
"month": "May",
"arr": 9800000,
"nrr": 111,
"logos": 16,
"churn": 1.9
},
{
"month": "Jun",
"arr": 10240000,
"nrr": 112,
"logos": 21,
"churn": 1.7
}
]
},
"spec": {
"layout": "row",
"metrics": [
{
"label": "ARR",
"valueField": "arr",
"agg": "last",
"format": {
"type": "currency",
"currency": "USD",
"compact": true
},
"color": "{chart.series.1}"
},
{
"label": "NRR",
"valueField": "nrr",
"agg": "last",
"format": {
"type": "percentage",
"decimals": 0
},
"color": "{chart.series.2}"
},
{
"label": "New logos",
"valueField": "logos",
"agg": "sum",
"format": {
"type": "number"
},
"color": "{chart.series.3}",
"sparklines": false
},
{
"label": "Gross churn",
"valueField": "churn",
"agg": "last",
"format": {
"type": "percentage",
"decimals": 1
},
"color": "{chart.series.5}",
"description": "Lower is better."
}
]
}
}Four tiles share three monthly rows; layout: "row" keeps them on one line, the logos tile turns its own sparklines off, and every chip compares June with May.
Try it live
Open the feature-tour template in the Builder
Open the feature-tour template, page print-report, panel nw-q2-summary for a four-tile strip over one quarterly query.
Build it in dvt
Every block on this page is a few lines of the same declarative JSON spec. Read the full spec format, or connect an AI agent to your warehouse and build one live in the quickstart.
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