Dashboards

A dashboard is a customized view you can assemble to best fit your needs. It consists of windows with static or interactive content, such as execution data, real-time task monitoring, videos or bulletins. These windows are called widgets. They can contain information from internal (originating in your application) or external sources. See About the Dashboards Perspective for an overview of the Dashboards perspective.

Although company policies differ, typically you will have rights to view and save changes to dashboards providing information on functions you have access to.

Types of Dashboards

Dashboards can be either public or private. You can set this when creating a dashboard or change this later.

• My Dashboards

  Private dashboards, only you can create, see and modify them.

• Public Dashboards

  Available to everyone.

  Provided you have the necessary rights to modify a public dashboard, if you do it, the previous version of the dashboard is no longer available to anyone.

  If you open a public dashboard that has widgets for perspectives that you do not have privileges for, the widget window is empty and displays a message informing you of it. If you have privileges to only some of the data that the widget could contain, you see only that data.

Widgets

Widgets are based on templates (widget types) that are predefined for a certain type of data and its presentation. They can be customized.

Each widget shows either information content or aggregated and compiled data, typically presented as a chart or as a list. The content a widget presents depends on its type.

See also:

• Creating Dashboards and Adding Widgets
• Working with Dashboards
• Working with Widgets
• Types of Widgets
• Setting Up Dashboards