Dashboards in the AWI
TheDashboards in the AWI include both a standard feature and an optional plug‑in perspective called "Dashboards." The Dashboards perspective enables authorized users to define additional dashboards.
Definition: Dashboard
A dashboard in the AWI is a tab page on which one or more windows (widgets) with different kinds of content are organized so that you can have a variety of information and links on one view.
Dashboard categories and types
There are two categories of dashboards, each of which have two types:
- Home dashboards. These are a standard AWI feature and are delivered with Automic default definitions. There are also two types of home dashboards:
Home Dashboard Type Description AWI Home dashboard This opens when you first log in to the AWI and when you click the Home icon . Perspective home dashboards Available for some perspectives such as the Service Catalog. They open when you first open the perspective and when you click the tab with the perspective name on it. - Dashboards on the Dashboards perspective, which is an optional AWI perspective that allows users to have a variety of dashboards that consolidate different kinds of information. The two types of dashboards that you find here depend on their accessibility to other users.
Dashboard Type Access Public dashboards To all users of the Dashboards perspective
Note: If you, as an administrator, create a different home dashboard for AWI or a perspective, make sure it is a public dashboard, otherwise users will not be able to see it.
Private dashboards To only the user who created them or claimed them from the custom dashboards list.
How dashboards are stored
Dashboard definitions are stored in the Automation Engine as DASH objects. When a dashboard is created, its DASH object is assigned to a folder.
How a dashboard is named and assigned to a folder depends on how the dashboard is created:
- Personalized home dashboards: When a user saves a personalized version of a home dashboard, the modified dashboard is automatically assigned to the folder defined in the configuration.properties file.
Note: If another dashboard exists with the same name, then an incremented number is appended to the name [.n].
- From the Dashboards perspective: When someone creates a dashboard in the Dashboards perspective, that person specifies a dashboard object name (one is proposed by the system) and the folder.
Who can see and work with dashboards
By granting the related authorizations to DASH objects and to folders, you can control who can access, maintain or create a dashboard. Specifying names or naming patterns in the user authorizations for both the DASH objects and folders, you can refine the level of access.
Note: Just like anywhere else in AWI, the data that appears on the dashboards for each user is limited to the objects that the user has authorizations for.
For information about setting up the dashboard options that your organization needs, see the following topics in this guide: