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Visibility

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User

Dashboards visible to a specific user will be designated with an icon depicting one user.

Group

Dashboards visible to a specific group(s) will be designated with an icon depicting two users.

Everyone

Dashboards visible to all users will be designated with an icon depicting four three users.

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Setting Order of Dashboard Tabs
Setting Order of Dashboard Tabs

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Step 1

Access the Dashboards page.

Step 2

From the Customize drop-down list at the bottom of the page, click New. The New Dashboard pop-up dialog displays.
 

 
For dashboard Create authorization, see Dashboard Security.

Step 3

Enter a Name for the new dashboard and a Visible To designation (default is Me).:

  • Me (Default)
  • Everyone
  • One or more groups.
Note

With the ops_dashboard_global role, you can additionally choose Everyone as a Visible To designation.

With the ops_dashboard_group role, you can additionally choose any group in which you are a member as a Visible To designation.

The Name must be unique within the selected Visible To designation.

Step 4

Click OK. An empty Dashboard page displays.
 
To the left of the dashboard, a Widget Picker list of all Widgets displays.
 

Step 5

By default, a new dashboard provides two columns, into which you can add any number of Widgets.
 
Drag and drop Widgets from the Select a Widget... list on the left side of the page into either column. The Widgets are arranged vertically in that column.
 
To see what the dashboard will look like without the Widget Picker, click the Hide Widget Picker button at the bottom of the dashboard. The Hide Widget Picker button is replaced by a Show Widget Picker button, which you can click to re-display the Widget Picker.
 
For example:
 

Step 6

To display a call-out of current data for any section of a Widget, hover your cursor over that section. The call-out identifies:

  • Data type represented by that section of the Widget
  • Number of that data type in that section
  • Percent of that data type in that section (in comparison to all sections)

For Composite Widgets, the call-out identifies the statuses included in each of its Activity Widgets.
 

Step 7

If you want to arrange your Widgets into more columns, click the Column Properties drop-down list above any column and then click Add Column.
 

 
After you have dropped a Widget into a column, you can drag and drop it to another location in the column or to another column.
 
You also can drag and drop each column into a new location by clicking the column header.

Step 8

If you decide that you do not want a selected Widget in the dashboard, click the x icon in the top right corner of the Widget to remove it.

Step 9

If you want to add some space between Widgets in a column, drag and drop the Spacer Widget from the list.

Step 10

Click the Save button to save the dashboard and display it on the Dashboards page. A tab for that dashboard also displays at the bottom of the Dashboards page.
 
(See Setting Order of Dashboard Tabs, below.)

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You can change the visibility of a dashboard so that it is visible to yourself, any group in which you are a membercombination of groups, or everyone.

You also can select whether or not to make a dashboard visible by default, as well as to override your default visibility selection by selecting to show or hide it.

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  • To manually refresh the data on all Widgets in a dashboard, click the Refresh button in the bottom right corner of the dashboard.
  • To manually refresh the data for a single Widget, click the Refresh icon in the top right corner of the Widget.

Promoting a Dashboard 

You can perform a Bundleless Promotion of a Dashboard by accessing the Customize drop-down list at the bottom right corner of the dashboard and clicking Promote...

If Follow References = false for a promotion, any widget required by a promoted dashboard must already be available on the target system.

For details on how the Controller resolves dashboards that references widgets, see Preparing Bundles for Promotion / Widgets.

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Closing the Dashboards
Closing the Dashboards
Closing the Dashboards

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