Create an Analytical Dashboard via UI5 Web Components for React

Create an analytical dashboard with different components using UI5 Web Components for React.

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🎓 beginner ⏱ 20 min. HTML5BeginnerSAP Fiori

You will learn

✔How to use the ShellBar component
✔How to use the AnalyticalTable component
✔How to style components

L Lukas Harbarth September 18, 2025

Created by November 29, 2019

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Intro

So far, you have built your first Card component. Now to take things further, it’s time to build something bigger. In this step, you will learn how different components work together by building an analytical dashboard.

Step 1 Add necessary imports

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To make things easier, first import all the components and enums you will need in this step. Just copy the code below and replace the previous imported components in MyApp.tsx.

TypeScript
import {
   Avatar,
   Card,
   CardHeader,
   Text,
   ShellBar,
   ShellBarItem,
   List,
   ListItemStandard,
   ListItemCustom,
   ProgressIndicator,
   FlexBox,
   FlexBoxJustifyContent,
   FlexBoxWrap,
   FlexBoxDirection,
   AnalyticalTable,
   Icon,
} from "@ui5/webcomponents-react";

Step 2 Add a `ShellBar`

The ShellBar is the central navigation element in your Web Application and should therefore be visible on all pages.

Again, you can try it out in the Storybook.

Start with adding the ShellBar above your Card component and add a primaryTitle prop.
TypeScript
```
<ShellBar primaryTitle="My App" />
```

Add some more properties

The logo of the application should be displayed and also a profile picture would be nice.

Use the logo and profile prop to achieve this. The logo prop accepts either an img tag or the Avatar component, the profile prop only accepts the Avatar component. First add the logo prop like this:

TypeScript
 <ShellBar logo={<img src="" alt="Company Logo" />} primaryTitle="My App" />

Then pass the profile prop like this:

TypeScript
<ShellBar
  logo={<img src="" alt="Company Logo"/>}
  profile={<Avatar><img src="" alt="User Avatar" /></Avatar>}
  primaryTitle="My App"
/>

You can use your own image, use a URL to an image or simply download the images below and add them inside your src folder and then import them.

reactLogo.png

profilePictureExample.png

Processed Assets:

TypeScript
import reactLogo from "./assets/reactLogo.png";
import profilePictureExample from "./assets/profilePictureExample.png";

TypeScript
<ShellBar
  logo={<img src={reactLogo} alt="Company Logo" />}
  profile={
    <Avatar>
      <img src={profilePictureExample} alt="User Avatar" />
    </Avatar>
  }
  primaryTitle="My App"
/>

Add custom items
By passing a ShellBarItem as child you are able to add custom items to your ShellBar. The element is basically a Button with responsive behavior and styling adapted to the ShellBar.
TypeScript
```
<ShellBar
  logo={<img src="reactLogo.png" />}
  profile={
    <Avatar>
      <img src="profilePictureExample.png" />
    </Avatar>
  }
  primaryTitle="My App"
>
  <ShellBarItem icon="activate" text="Activate" tooltip="activate" />
</ShellBar>
```
That is strange – when you render your component, the ShellBarItem is not shown.
Every Icon that is used in a component has to be imported manually. All available icons can be found here.
Add this line to your imports:
TypeScript
```
import activateIcon from "@ui5/webcomponents-icons/dist/activate.js";
```
Now your ShellBarItem shows up on the right side of the ShellBar.
ShellBar
For maintainability reasons, replace icon="activate" with the import name icon={activateIcon}. Now if you replace the icon but forget to remove the import, modern IDEs or linters like eslint will tell you that there is an unused import in your file.

Your component should now look like this:

TypeScript
import activateIcon from "@ui5/webcomponents-icons/dist/activate.js";
import lineChartIcon from "@ui5/webcomponents-icons/dist/line-chart.js";
import barChartIcon from "@ui5/webcomponents-icons/dist/horizontal-bar-chart.js";
import { useState } from "react";
import {
  Avatar,
  Card,
  CardHeader,
  Text,
  ShellBar,
  ShellBarItem,
  List,
  ListItemStandard,
  ListItemCustom,
  ProgressIndicator,
  FlexBox,
  FlexBoxJustifyContent,
  FlexBoxWrap,
  FlexBoxDirection,
  AnalyticalTable,
  Icon,
} from "@ui5/webcomponents-react";
import { BarChart, LineChart } from "@ui5/webcomponents-react-charts";
import reactLogo from "./assets/reactLogo.png";
import profilePictureExample from "./assets/profilePictureExample.png";

const dataset = [
  {
    month: "January",
    data: 65,
  },
  {
    month: "February",
    data: 59,
  },
  {
    month: "March",
    data: 80,
  },
  {
    month: "April",
    data: 81,
  },
  {
    month: "May",
    data: 56,
  },
  {
    month: "June",
    data: 55,
  },
  {
    month: "July",
    data: 40,
  },
];

export function MyApp() {
  const [toggleCharts, setToggleCharts] = useState("lineChart");
  const [loading, setLoading] = useState(false);

  const contentTitle =
    toggleCharts === "lineChart" ? "Line Chart" : "Bar Chart";
  const switchToChart =
    toggleCharts === "lineChart" ? "Bar Chart" : "Line Chart";

  const handleHeaderClick = () => {
    if (toggleCharts === "lineChart") {
      setLoading(true);
      setTimeout(() => {
        setLoading(false);
        setToggleCharts("barChart");
      }, 2000);
    } else {
      setLoading(true);
      setTimeout(() => {
        setLoading(false);
        setToggleCharts("lineChart");
      }, 2000);
    }
  };

  return (
    <div>
      <ShellBar
        logo={<img src={reactLogo} alt="Company Logo" />}
        profile={
          <Avatar>
            <img src={profilePictureExample} alt="User Avatar" />
          </Avatar>
        }
        primaryTitle="My App"
      >
        <ShellBarItem icon={activateIcon} text="Activate" />
      </ShellBar>
      <Card
        header={
          <CardHeader
            titleText="Prices"
            subtitleText={`Click here to switch to ${switchToChart}`}
            interactive
            avatar={
              <Icon
                name={
                  toggleCharts === "lineChart" ? lineChartIcon : barChartIcon
                }
                accessibleName={contentTitle}
              />
            }
            onClick={handleHeaderClick}
          />
        }
        style={{ width: "300px" }}
      >
        <Text style={{ padding: "var(--sapContent_Space_S)" }}>
          {contentTitle}
        </Text>
        {toggleCharts === "lineChart" ? (
          <LineChart
            dimensions={[{ accessor: "month" }]}
            measures={[{ accessor: "data", label: "Price" }]}
            dataset={dataset}
            loading={loading}
          />
        ) : (
          <BarChart
            dimensions={[{ accessor: "month" }]}
            measures={[{ accessor: "data", label: "Price" }]}
            dataset={dataset}
            loading={loading}
          />
        )}
      </Card>
    </div>
  );
}

Step 3 Add a `List`

To wrap the List add a Card (right after the first one).

TypeScript
<Card
  header={
    <CardHeader
      titleText="Progress"
      subtitleText="List"
      avatar={<Icon name={listIcon} />}
    />
  }
  style={{ width: "300px" }}
></Card>

Add the list Icon to your imports.

TypeScript
import listIcon from "@ui5/webcomponents-icons/dist/list.js";

Add the List component as child of the Card.
TypeScript
```
<List></List>
```
To render elements of the list, use the ListItemStandard and pass a string as child.
TypeScript
```
 <List>
   <ListItemStandard>Activity 1</ListItemStandard>
 </List>
```

Users should know the status of the activities. Add the additionalText prop to the StandardListItem. To visualize if the status is neutral, positive or negative, also add the additionalTextState prop.

You can either pass a supported string directly, or use the ValueState enum:

TypeScript
import ValueState from '@ui5/webcomponents-base/dist/types/ValueState.js';

TypeScript
<ListItemStandard
  additionalText="finished"
  additionalTextState={ValueState.Positive}
>
  Activity 1
</ListItemStandard>
<ListItemStandard
  additionalText="failed"
  additionalTextState={ValueState.Negative}
>
  Activity 2
</ListItemStandard>

The “Progress” card shows two list items, but both of them are already completed. Let’s create two more activities which are still in progress.
First, create two ListItemCustoms below the completed items.
TypeScript
```
<ListItemCustom></ListItemCustom>
<ListItemCustom></ListItemCustom>
```
The ListItemCustom allows customizing the content of the list item and for this reason doesn’t offer props like additionalText.
To show the progress, add the ProgressIndicator as child of the items, with the following props:
- value: The value, which indicates the progress
- valueState: The value-state (color) of the indicator
TypeScript
```
<ListItemCustom>
  <ProgressIndicator value={89} valueState={ValueState.Positive} />
</ListItemCustom>
<ListItemCustom>
  <ProgressIndicator value={5} valueState={ValueState.Negative} />
</ListItemCustom>
```
The indicators are displayed as part of the list item, but the title and status of the activities is still missing. For this, add two Text components above the indicator:
TypeScript
```
<ListItemCustom>
  <Text>Activity 3</Text>
  <Text>in progress</Text>
  <ProgressIndicator value={89} valueState={ValueState.Positive} />
</ListItemCustom>
```

All necessary information are now available in each item, but the formatting looks terrible. Let’s fix that by using a flex-box:

TypeScript
<ListItemCustom>
  <FlexBox direction={FlexBoxDirection.Column} fitContainer>
    <FlexBox justifyContent={FlexBoxJustifyContent.SpaceBetween}>
      <Text>Activity 3</Text>
      <Text>in progress</Text>
    </FlexBox>
    <ProgressIndicator value={89} valueState={ValueState.Positive} />
  </FlexBox>
</ListItemCustom>

The FlexBox implements most of the CSS Flexbox behavior without being forced to actually use CSS or other styling methods.

The content of the list item is now aligned correctly, but doesn’t apply the correct padding, colors and dimensions. To fix this as well, pass the style prop, to use the default React inlineStyle syntax. Again, we’re using global CSS variables for this:

TypeScript
<ListItemCustom>
  <FlexBox
    direction={FlexBoxDirection.Column}
    fitContainer
    style={{ paddingBlock: "var(--sapContent_Space_S)" }}
  >
    <FlexBox justifyContent={FlexBoxJustifyContent.SpaceBetween}>
      <Text style={{ fontSize: "var(--sapFontLargeSize)" }}>
        Activity 3
      </Text>
      <Text style={{ color: "var(--sapCriticalTextColor)" }}>
        in progress
      </Text>
    </FlexBox>
    <ProgressIndicator
      value={89}
      valueState={ValueState.Positive}
      style={{ marginBlockStart: "0.5rem" }}
    />
  </FlexBox>
</ListItemCustom>

Finally, apply the same layout and styles to the content of the second ListItemCustom.
List

Step 4 Add an `AnalyticalTable`

The last tile should contain a AnalyticalTable component. Again, create a Card to wrap the Table and set the max-width to 900px.

TypeScript
<Card
  header={
    <CardHeader
      titleText="AnalyticalTable"
      avatar={<Icon name={tableViewIcon} />}
    />
  }
  style={{ maxWidth: "900px" }}
>
  <AnalyticalTable />
</Card>

Also import the table-view Icon.

TypeScript
import tableViewIcon from "@ui5/webcomponents-icons/dist/table-view.js";

Add data and columns to the table. The columns prop expects an array of objects that include at least the accessor to the data or a unique id property. The value of Header will be shown as column header.

You can create your own data or just use the code below and paste it right after the definition of the dataset of the chart.

TypeScript
const tableData = new Array(500).fill(null).map((_, index) => {
  return {
    name: `name${index}`,
    age: Math.floor(Math.random() * 100),
    friend: {
      name: `friend.Name${index}`,
      age: Math.floor(Math.random() * 100)
    }
  };
});

const tableColumns = [
  {
    Header: "Name",
    accessor: "name" // String-based value accessors!
  },
  {
    Header: "Age",
    accessor: "age"
  },
  {
    Header: "Friend Name",
    accessor: "friend.name"
  },
  {
    Header: "Friend Age",
    accessor: "friend.age"
  }
];

Display the data by replacing the current table with.
TypeScript
```
<AnalyticalTable data={tableData} columns={tableColumns} />
```
Table
Add more properties
You can add many more properties to the AnalyticalTable component. For example, you can allow sorting, filtering and grouping via sortable, filterable and groupable, enable different selection modes with selectionMode, control how the table splits up available space between the columns with scaleWidthMode and many more. Feel free to take a look at the documentation and explore the different examples before continuing.
The default visible rows count is at 15. This number is a bit to high for a dashboard table. Reduce the visibleRows count to 5 by setting the corresponding prop.
TypeScript
```
<AnalyticalTable
  data={tableData}
  columns={tableColumns}
  visibleRows={5}/>
```

Step 5 Dashboard layout

At the moment, the dashboard doesn’t really look like a dashboard. The components are way too close to each other and not aligned correctly. Let’s change that.

Add margin to each Card

To add a margin to the cards, you can use the global CSS vars again:

TypeScript
<Card
  header={
    <CardHeader
      titleText="Stock Prices"
      ...
    />
  }
  style={{ width: "300px", margin: "var(--sapContent_Margin_Small)" }}
>

TypeScript
<Card
  header={
    <CardHeader
      titleText="Progress"
      ...
    />
  }
  style={{ width: "300px", margin: "var(--sapContent_Margin_Small)" }}
>

TypeScript
<Card
  header={
    <CardHeader
      titleText="AnalyticalTable"
      ...
    />
  }
  style={{ maxWidth: "900px", margin: "var(--sapContent_Margin_Small)" }}
>

Align the elements
To properly align the tiles, use a FlexBox component and wrap your Cards inside of it. Use the justifyContent prop to center align all elements and wrap to make them move to the next line if not enough space is available, also apply the style prop to add a padding to the whole content area.
TypeScript
```
<FlexBox
    justifyContent={FlexBoxJustifyContent.Center}
    wrap={FlexBoxWrap.Wrap}
    style={spacing.sapUiContentPadding}
    ...
</FlexBox>
```
Note: You could also use the gap prop of the FlexBox component to apply the spacing.

Your component should now look like this:

TypeScript
import tableViewIcon from "@ui5/webcomponents-icons/dist/table-view.js";
import listIcon from "@ui5/webcomponents-icons/dist/list.js";
import activateIcon from "@ui5/webcomponents-icons/dist/activate.js";
import lineChartIcon from "@ui5/webcomponents-icons/dist/line-chart.js";
import barChartIcon from "@ui5/webcomponents-icons/dist/horizontal-bar-chart.js";
import { useState } from "react";
import {
  Avatar,
  Card,
  CardHeader,
  Text,
  ShellBar,
  ShellBarItem,
  List,
  ListItemStandard,
  ListItemCustom,
  ProgressIndicator,
  FlexBox,
  FlexBoxJustifyContent,
  FlexBoxWrap,
  FlexBoxDirection,
  AnalyticalTable,
  Icon,
} from "@ui5/webcomponents-react";
import { BarChart, LineChart } from "@ui5/webcomponents-react-charts";
import reactLogo from "./assets/reactLogo.png";
import profilePictureExample from "./assets/profilePictureExample.png";
import ValueState from "@ui5/webcomponents-base/dist/types/ValueState.js";

const tableData = new Array(500).fill(null).map((_, index) => {
  return {
    name: `name${index}`,
    age: Math.floor(Math.random() * 100),
    friend: {
      name: `friend.Name${index}`,
      age: Math.floor(Math.random() * 100),
    },
  };
});

const tableColumns = [
  {
    Header: "Name",
    accessor: "name", // String-based value accessors!
  },
  {
    Header: "Age",
    accessor: "age",
  },
  {
    Header: "Friend Name",
    accessor: "friend.name",
  },
  {
    Header: "Friend Age",
    accessor: "friend.age",
  },
];

const dataset = [
  {
    month: "January",
    data: 65,
  },
  {
    month: "February",
    data: 59,
  },
  {
    month: "March",
    data: 80,
  },
  {
    month: "April",
    data: 81,
  },
  {
    month: "May",
    data: 56,
  },
  {
    month: "June",
    data: 55,
  },
  {
    month: "July",
    data: 40,
  },
];

export function MyApp() {
  const [toggleCharts, setToggleCharts] = useState("lineChart");
  const [loading, setLoading] = useState(false);

  const contentTitle =
    toggleCharts === "lineChart" ? "Line Chart" : "Bar Chart";
  const switchToChart =
    toggleCharts === "lineChart" ? "Bar Chart" : "Line Chart";

  const handleHeaderClick = () => {
    if (toggleCharts === "lineChart") {
      setLoading(true);
      setTimeout(() => {
        setLoading(false);
        setToggleCharts("barChart");
      }, 2000);
    } else {
      setLoading(true);
      setTimeout(() => {
        setLoading(false);
        setToggleCharts("lineChart");
      }, 2000);
    }
  };

  return (
    <div>
      <ShellBar
        logo={<img src={reactLogo} alt="Company Logo" />}
        profile={
          <Avatar>
            <img src={profilePictureExample} alt="User Avatar" />
          </Avatar>
        }
        primaryTitle="My App"
      >
        <ShellBarItem icon={activateIcon} text="Activate" />
      </ShellBar>
      <FlexBox
        justifyContent={FlexBoxJustifyContent.Center}
        wrap={FlexBoxWrap.Wrap}
        style={{ padding: "var(--sapContent_Space_M)" }}
      >
        <Card
          header={
            <CardHeader
              titleText="Prices"
              subtitleText={`Click here to switch to ${switchToChart}`}
              interactive
              avatar={
                <Icon
                  name={
                    toggleCharts === "lineChart" ? lineChartIcon : barChartIcon
                  }
                  accessibleName={contentTitle}
                />
              }
              onClick={handleHeaderClick}
            />
          }
          style={{ width: "300px", margin: "var(--sapContent_Margin_Small)" }}
        >
          <Text style={{ padding: "var(--sapContent_Space_S)" }}>
            {contentTitle}
          </Text>
          {toggleCharts === "lineChart" ? (
            <LineChart
              dimensions={[{ accessor: "month" }]}
              measures={[{ accessor: "data", label: "Price" }]}
              dataset={dataset}
              loading={loading}
            />
          ) : (
            <BarChart
              dimensions={[{ accessor: "month" }]}
              measures={[{ accessor: "data", label: "Price" }]}
              dataset={dataset}
              loading={loading}
            />
          )}
        </Card>
        <Card
          header={
            <CardHeader
              titleText="Progress"
              subtitleText="List"
              avatar={<Icon name={listIcon} />}
            />
          }
          style={{ width: "300px", margin: "var(--sapContent_Margin_Small)" }}
        >
          <List>
            <ListItemStandard
              additionalText="finished"
              additionalTextState={ValueState.Positive}
            >
              Activity 1
            </ListItemStandard>
            <ListItemStandard
              additionalText="failed"
              additionalTextState={ValueState.Negative}
            >
              Activity 2
            </ListItemStandard>
            <ListItemCustom>
              <FlexBox
                direction={FlexBoxDirection.Column}
                fitContainer
                style={{ paddingBlock: "var(--sapContent_Space_S)" }}
              >
                <FlexBox justifyContent={FlexBoxJustifyContent.SpaceBetween}>
                  <Text style={{ fontSize: "var(--sapFontLargeSize)" }}>
                    Activity 3
                  </Text>
                  <Text style={{ color: "var(--sapCriticalTextColor)" }}>
                    in progress
                  </Text>
                </FlexBox>
                <ProgressIndicator
                  value={89}
                  valueState={ValueState.Positive}
                  style={{ marginBlockStart: "0.5rem" }}
                />
              </FlexBox>
            </ListItemCustom>
            <ListItemCustom>
              <FlexBox
                direction={FlexBoxDirection.Column}
                fitContainer
                style={{ paddingBlock: "var(--sapContent_Space_S)" }}
              >
                <FlexBox justifyContent={FlexBoxJustifyContent.SpaceBetween}>
                  <Text style={{ fontSize: "var(--sapFontLargeSize)" }}>
                    Activity 3
                  </Text>
                  <Text style={{ color: "var(--sapCriticalTextColor)" }}>
                    in progress
                  </Text>
                </FlexBox>
                <ProgressIndicator
                  value={5}
                  valueState={ValueState.Negative}
                  style={{ marginBlockStart: "0.5rem" }}
                />
              </FlexBox>
            </ListItemCustom>
          </List>
        </Card>
        <Card
          header={
            <CardHeader
              titleText="AnalyticalTable"
              avatar={<Icon name={tableViewIcon} />}
            />
          }
          style={{
            maxWidth: "900px",
            margin: "var(--sapContent_Margin_Small)",
          }}
        >
          <AnalyticalTable
            data={tableData}
            columns={tableColumns}
            visibleRows={5}
          />
        </Card>
      </FlexBox>
    </div>
  );
}

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1. Add necessary imports

2. Add a `ShellBar`

3. Add a `List`

4. Add an `AnalyticalTable`

5. Dashboard layout

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