Default dashboards
The default dashboard tabls of the platform are the Metrics, Hybrid and Optimization tabs. All users can access all tabs of the Default dashboard and the different dashboards created for their user privileges level. If the user does not have the appropriate privileges to display the data in a widget, the widget will display with "No data available".
Dynamic dashboard types
The platform displays four types of dashboards in the following order:
Default
Reseller
Enterprise
User
Within that order, when you create or edit a new dashboard tab, you can set the order within its dashboard type.
Create a dashboard
Administrators can create dashboards for the whole platform (default dashboards) and enterprise dashboards. All users with the appropriate privileges can create their own user dashboards.
To create a dashboard tab:
Privileges: Manage default dashboards, Access enterprise metadata (dashboards), Manage enterprise metadata (dashboards), Access user metadata (dashboards), Manage user metadata (dashboards)
Go Home view
At the right of the Dashboard tabs, click the + Add button
Enter the dashboard details
The Type is for display and management of the dashboard for Default (all users), the current Enterprise, or the current User
For the Lang code, enter the language code (as for the UI, see Abiquo UI client language configuration).
You can customize or translate the dashboard labels and save them in a file (with a name in the format displayed) in the lang folder of the UI.
For example "dashboard.tab.SpainITDashboard.en_ES"For Dashboard order in type group, set the display order of the dashboard
Click Save
Add widgets and configure them as required. See Add widgets to a dashboard and Dashboard widgets
After you have finished, click Save dashboard changes
Add widgets to a dashboard
If you have the privileges to manage a dashboard, you can add any available widget to the dashboards.
To add widgets to a dashboard, do these steps.
Privileges: Manage default dashboards, Access enterprise metadata (dashboards), Manage enterprise metadata (dashboards), Access user metadata (dashboards), Manage user metadata (dasboards)
Go to Home view → select a dashboard
Click Add widget
From the Widgets catalog, select a dashboard widget. Configure the widget as required
Click Add
Repeat for more widgets, then click Save dashboard changes
For a description of the available widgets, see the Dashboard widgets.
To control the available widgets, see Configure Abiquo UI.
Resize dashboard widgets
To resize widgets on a dashboard, the user must have permission to manage the dashboard. The user can click on the edge of a widget and drag to resize it. But if the widget has a scroll bar on the bottom or right-hand side, the user may not be able to resize in this direction.
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