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How to Rebuild a Complicated Spotfire Dashboard

June 10, 2025

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What You Need to Know About Rebuilding Dashboards


Dashboards rarely start off complex, but they often end up that way. Over time, small tweaks, growing logic, and changing data sources make them complicated and difficult to maintain.


Common Signs It’s Time to Rebuild:


  • Fixing one issue breaks something else

  • The logic is too tangled to follow

  • It’s still used, but no one trusts it

  • The original builder is long gone


How to Rebuild It:


  1. Map your data sources – See where everything comes from and how it's connected

  2. Trace visuals to logic – Understand what each tab or chart depends on

  3. Prioritize – Start with the most critical section

  4. Rebuild the logic – Reverse engineer everything into clean, centralized SQL

  5. Simplify and optimize – Eliminate redundancy and improve performance

  6. Rebuild the dashboard – Based on a cleaner, more sustainable foundation


Result:


A dashboard that runs faster, is easier to understand, and isn’t a difficult to maintain.