How to create and edit Dashboards ?

This article is about how to create and edit Dashboards.

We wanted to give you a simple tool to visualize a building data that is why we created Dashboards.

The new Dashboards tab offer two experiences:

• Schematics: the same feature available before under the schematic tab. Your former schematics have been migrated there. You can still add new schematics as before
• Dashboards: A board to visualize values.

To add a new Dashboard, click on the Dashboard circle. The configuration panel for the new Dashboard is displayed.

Give the Dashboard a name.

Dashboards are made of different charts. In its current version, two types of charts are available:

• Single Value: to display the value of a data point in a tile
• Table: to show a data table (maximum 3x3) with different data points values

Select the “Single Value” chart type to start with and click “Select properties” to choose the data points that will be represented in the charts.

We improved the “Properties selector” to authorize multiple actions:

• You can filter properties by equipment
• You can search for specific properties by name (see “Tempe” in the search field above)
• You can select properties in the list. Perform an other search and select the new properties matching the results. They will all be added to the current list
• The total number of properties selected is always displayed on the top left corner of the table
• You can clear your selection or select all properties at the top of the table

Once you have selected the properties that you want to display in a single value chart, click “Save”. 

As we are adding charts for the first time here, we can add multiple single value chart at once. There will be as many single value charts created as there are data points selected. Example:

In the “Options” section you can add a link from the single value chart to other sections of the console to access in one click the latest values of a data point or its configuration.

Finally, click “Add” to create the Dashboard.

It will create four single value charts as I selected four data points

I clicked on “See more” on the second chart to illustrate the two links for the latest values or the configuration as I selected both options above.

You can click “Edit” on a single value chart to change the data point, to customize the label (by default the data point name) and to change the links.

You can add as many charts as you want. To add a table chart, click “Add a chart” on the Dashboard

Select “Table” as the new chart type. This chart allows you to display data points in a table format similar to Microsoft Excel for example.

Select the properties that you want to display. In this example, I selected four properties.

In its current version, the table chart, asks you to specify the number of rows and columns (2 or 3)

A 2 by 2 table will let you 1 cell to display the value of your data point(s).

A 2 by 3 table will let you 2 cells…

Depending on the number of columns and rows, you are asked to edit the headers or the labels of the columns and rows.

Here I want to display the temperature and the humidity for two rooms, so I select a 3x3 table.

Then, select the position of the different data points values in the newly defined table. For this select for each data point, the cell where it will be displayed. The cells are named in the same fashion as in Microsoft Excel with letters for the columns and numbers for the rows.

I could have selected a 2x3 table to display the temperature and the humidity of a room in the same cell.

In my example, the humidity for the room on the third floor will be in the cell C2 (C for third column, 2 for second row).

Click “Add” to add the table to the current dashboard.

You now have two single value charts and one table in your Dashboard. You can add as many as you like.

Like with single value charts, you can edit the table by clicking “Edit” in the top left cell

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