Dashboard overview

Purpose

The Dashboard is the home page of a plant: a grid of widgets. A widget is a tile that shows one type of data. A View is one saved layout of widgets. Each person has their own Views for each logger.

Companion Guides

• Add a device: How to add a device in myPower24

Location

• Path: Dashboard in the menu.

Page Layout

Top Bar

• View dropdown: the list of your Views, with a trash icon on each row, and Add view.
• Date control: sets one date for all widgets. You cannot pick a date after today.
• Saved: the time of the last save.
• Pencil: starts edit mode. In edit mode, it changes to a close (X) icon.
• Gear: opens View Settings. It shows only in edit mode.

Outside edit mode, the tiles stay in place.

Edit Mode

• Add New Widget: opens the widget picker. Search for a widget, then click Add Widget.
• Question mark: on each picker card. It opens the article for that widget.
• Move: drag the tile.
• Resize: drag the corner of the tile.
• Remove: click the close icon on the tile.
• Spanner: opens the settings of the tile. It shows only on widgets that have settings.

View Settings

• View Title: the name of the current View.
• Create New View: adds an empty View before or after the current one, with Add Before or Add After.
• Auto Update: refreshes the data at 10-minute intervals.
• Delete a View: deletes a View.

Tips

• Save: the Dashboard saves itself after each change.
• When you stop edit mode: the tiles move up to close the gaps.
• Screen width: each View keeps a different layout for each of four screen widths.
• Last View: you cannot delete your last View.
• Viewer: a Viewer sees the same Dashboard and the same widgets.