This documentation pertains to the unsupported version of NeoDash, as part of Neo4j Labs. For users of the supported NeoDash offering, refer to NeoDash commercial.

Publishing

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When you are done building a dashboard, you may want to publish that dashboard for others to view. The workflow for a continuous dashboarding cycle may look something like this:

Workflow

Keep in mind that the purpose of an application in the `View' phase is very different from the `Build' phase:

  1. A dashboard cannot be edited after it has been published.

  2. A fixed dashboard must be loaded and a fixed database must be connected to.

  3. Users in the `View' phase should not see the Cypher queries configuration powering the visualizations.

Architecture

NeoDash enables the Build, Publish, View workflow by having two seperate deployments of the NeoDash application:

  1. An editor deployment for the build phase.

  2. A viewer deployment for the view phase.

The editor deployment is the app you are using from Neo4j Desktop, from https://neodash.graphapp.io, or from your own deployment.

The viewer deployment will require some configuration to be set up. These three configurations must be set for NeoDash to be able to run in `View' mode:

  1. A flag telling the app to disable all editing features.

  2. A hardcoded Neo4j database to connect to.

  3. A hardcoded dashboard to load.

Technical details on setting this up are documented in the Standalone Mode page.