Overview

Dashboards are sets of Widgets that provide quick access to information about the Universal Controller activity and system information.

The Controller Home Dashboard, which displays when you log in to the Controller, is a system-defined dashboard.

The Controller provides a set of Widgets, each of which you can add to any dashboard. You also can create your own Widgets and add them to any dashboard.

Note

You cannot add Widgets to or remove Widgets from the Home dashboard, and you cannot delete the Home dashboard, but you can copy it.

Accessing the Dashboards

To access the Dashboards, you can either:

Click the Dashboards tab to display the currently selected dashboard.
Click the Home icon at the top of any page to display your Home dashboard.
Click Dashboards in the Reporting navigation pane to display your default dashboard.

Unless you manually close the dashboards, the dashboards remain open throughout your Controller session, and the Dashboards tab displays at the top of every page.

Dashboard Security

By default, all users can create, edit, and delete their own dashboards. To enforce stricter dashboard creation constraints at the user level, refer to the Strict Dashboard Create Constraints Universal Controller system property.

For authorization to create, edit, or delete a dashboard with Everyone or group visibility, refer to the ops_report_admin, ops_dashboard_group, and ops_dashboard_global roles.

Dashboard Tabs

Within the Dashboards tab, each dashboard that is visible to you, including your Home dashboard, will appear as a selectable tab along the bottom of the Dashboards page.

In order to distinguish dashboards that you have created from dashboards that you have inherited, you can select to display a visibility icon in the Dashboard tabs (see the Use Dashboard Visibility Icons user preference).

Visibility	Icon	Description

Visibility	Icon	Description
User		Dashboards visible to a specific user will be designated with an icon depicting one user.
Group		Dashboards visible to 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 three users.

Setting Order of Dashboard Tabs

A tab displays at the bottom of the Dashboards page for every dashboard that you create (or copy.) By default, the Home dashboard tab displays first, followed by tabs in the order (by time) that their dashboards were created/copied.

You can change the order of the Dashboards tabs by clicking any tab and dragging it left or right.

The Dashboard tabs for any new dashboards created/copied since the last time that the tabs were re-ordered will display at the end of those re-ordered tabs, sorted by create time.

Creating a Dashboard

For dashboard create authorization, see Dashboard Security.

To create a dashboard:

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: Me (Default) Everyone One or more groups. 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)