Elixir Dashboard Designer provides a hierarchy of views to control the layout of content. The topmost view is the Card. There may be many cards in a dashboard, but only one card is visible at a time and switches between cards can be done either manually, using the combo box on the titlebar, or based on actions. For example, a double-click on a chart could switch to a card that contains a breakdown of the information in that chart.

Within a card, there may be two kinds of view, split views, which divide the available space amongst their children, and content views, which render content such as a chart or table.