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Introduction

If you are approved to create a Buster account, you may log in to onboard additional datasources, manage account settings, and create additional projects.

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Create a new project

All of your project can be found at app.buster.so/projects. In order to create a new project do the following:

1. Click “New Project” from the projects page
2. Enter a project name
3. Select the data source you want to use (this cannot be changed once a project is created)

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Dashboard Builder Overview

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Create your first metric

1. Click on “Add chart”
2. In the search box, type in your question or click on one of the suggested questions below
   1. Note: The suggested question that appear below search bar are questions that were previously “approved” as apart of the data source onboarding fine tuning step. These questions are selected randomly.
   2. As a user is typing, suggested questions drop down below the input. These questions are also selected from the “approved” questions from the data source onboarding fine tuning step.
3. Depending on the complexity of the question, data should be returned between 5 - 15 seconds.

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Changing chart details

The following details can be changed about your metric

You can continue chatting using the input at the bottom left to continue refining your data

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Saving a metric

A metric can be saved by clicking the “Save” button in the top right hand corner of the chat. New metrics are automatically saved to the top left corner of your dashboard.

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Edit metrics

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Editing existing metrics

To edit an existing metric:

1. Click on the metric’s title on the dashboard to open that metric’s chat history
2. Once the metric is open you can continue chatting with it, editing it’s title, or visualization. Nothing will be changed on your dashboard until you click “Save”.
3. Save is disabled until changes are made to the chart or chat.

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Search history

To see your previous chats, you can click the “Search history” icon from the dashboard’s main page or by click “Search history” from an existing chat.

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Stylize your application

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Themes and sizing

Buster allows you change many visual attributes of your application. These changes happen from the “Styling tab”. All changes are saved automatically but will not be reflected in your embedded application until you click “publish”.

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Test data

The “beaker” icon in the top left of the page can be clicked to enable “test data”. Test data is a great way to visualize how different themes will look in your application.

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Edit project settings

Currently you can use the project settings to edit the following details:

• Company name
• Company Logo

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#Preview Mode

To open the preview mode:

1. Click the “Preview” button at the top of the builder page.
2. To exit the preview experience click “Edit dashboard”.

NOTE: A new “preview user” is created every time you open the preview mode. What this means in practice is that every time you enter preview mode the application will wiped clean and defaulted to it’s original original state.

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Publish and Embed

To put buster into your company’s website you will need to do the following steps:

1. Publish the application.

By click publish in the top right of right, you are saving all the application’s styles, metrics, and meta data.

2. Embed the application Additional info on embedding the application can be found on _____. Your application will always pull the most recent published version’s style, metric, ect.

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Additional Help