Working with IoT Dashboards in Zoho IoT: A Practical Guide

Working with Dashboards

Creating Dashboards 

To create a dashboard:
1. Select Dashboard from the application's navigation menu on the left pane in the End Application.
2. Click the Add Dashboard button in the top right corner.

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3. Select the type of the dashboard whether General Dashboard or Module Specific Dashboard.

General Dashboard

4. Provide the necessary details in the New Dashboard form.  


Image: General Dashboard Creation Form
  1. Enter a unique title for the dashboard, and a description.
  2. Select the group under which the dashboard must be created. Grouping will help you to segregate dashboards in custom views.
    You can create a new group using the Add New link at the bottom of the drop down.
  3. Select the permission, whether Administrator, Standard, Technician, etc.
  4. Set the Time Selection toggle to ON/OFF based on your requirement. Enabling Time Selection will allow you to change the time period of all the widgets in your dashboard in one selection.
Alert
Refer to the Setting Time Selection section for more details on the dashboard terms.

5. Click Create

          Module Specific Dashboard
i. Provide the necessary details in the New Dashboard form.  
  1. Enter a unique title for the dashboard, and a description.
  2. Select the group under which the dashboard must be created. Grouping will help you to segregate dashboards in custom views.
    You can create a new group using the Add New link at the bottom of the drop down.
  3. Select the permission, whether Administrator, Standard, Technician, etc.
  4. Set the Time Selection toggle to ON/OFF based on your requirement. Enabling Time Selection will allow you to change the time period of all the widgets in your dashboard in one selection.



Image: Module Specific Dashboard Creation Form

Refer to the Module Specific Dashboard section for more details. 
            ii. Select the filter conditions you want to have on the dashboard after creating the widgets. This will help in filtering all the data in the dashboard globally at the same time.



iii. Provide the additional details
iv. Click Create.

6. After creating the dashboard, you can proceed to add widgets immediately. Or you can add widgets to the dashboard later when required by editing the dashboard.
 




Availability

Info
All Dashboard operations require necessary permissions. Refer to Users and Profiles document for more details.

Check Feature Availability and Limits


Editing Dashboards 

Dashboard details such as name, description, group, permissions, and time selection can be edited using the Edit Details option.
 
To edit dashboard details:
1. Select the Dashboard option from the application's navigation menu on the left pane in the End Application.
2. Click Actions, then select Edit Details from the drop down option.



3. Edit dashboard details such as name, description, group, permissions, and time selection.



Image: Edit Details screen

4. Click Update.
Notes
Note: The Edit Layout option in the Actions menu can be used to add widgets, delete widgets, rearrange and resize the widgets in a dashboard.  

Cloning Dashboards 

At times, you may want to create a dashboard similar to an existing dashboard with minor changes. For this, you can create a replica of the dashboard with the Clone Dashboard option and modify the layout as required.

To clone a dashboard:
1. Select the Dashboard option from the application's navigation menu on the left in the End Application.
2. Click Actions, then select Clone from the drop down option in the top right corner.
3. Provide the desired details.
4. Click Create to create the cloned dashboard.

Deleting Dashboards 

Dashboards can be removed from the application using the Delete option.
 
To delete a dashboard:
1. Select the Dashboard option from the application's navigation menu on the left in the End Application.
2. Click Actions, then select Delete from the drop down option in the top right corner.



3. Click Delete Dashboard in the confirmation popup.
 


The dashboard will be removed permanently from the application.

Setting Time Selection 

The Time Selection option can be used to specify the time period to be set for all the widgets in the dashboard. This option is selected when creating a dashboard, and is applied to all widgets added to the dashboard. The time period can be updated at dashboard level by selecting the new time period from the drop down list on the top.
  1. Create the dashboard with Time Selection enabled.



2. Add widgets to the dashboard with the time period as specified during Time Selection e.g. This Week.

Widget 1
 

Widget 2


The time period specified for the widgets in the particular dashboard can be modified by selecting the time period from the drop down list in the dashboard view.




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