2.3 Dashboard Widget and Panel Elements

What

All panels (or widgets) on theEvery FileWave dashboard arepanel, comprisedalso ofcalled a widget, is built from the same basic elements.  This article reviewsexplains thosewhat elementseach atelement controls before you create a highcustom level.panel.

When/Why

IfYou can use an existing panel without changing these elements. When you arebuild usingor pre-existingtroubleshoot panels,a youcustom won't care too much about howpanel, they aredetermine built.its data, However,display, asand soongeneral as you want to build your own panels, the building blocks become quite important.behavior.

How

AllA panelsdashboard havepanel the followinghas three main elements:

• The Query (Choosing what data you want to see in the panel)
• The Visualization (Choosing the visual representation of the data: gauge, bar chart, table...)
• General (Panel properties such as title, comment, links)

InThe examples below show each element in the belowpanel you'll see examples of each of these elements:editor:

The Query

The query you choose defines the data providedavailable to the panel. This Inexample this case,uses an inventory query was selected.query.

The Visualization

Because we chose anAn inventory query asreturns ourtable-shaped datadata, source,so this example uses a table was our only possible visualization. Other Indata our more advanced example though, you'll see that wesources can dosupport chartsgauges, charts, and graphs here of all sorts.graphs.

General

WeThis example sets only specifiedthe apanel namename. inYou this case for this panel, but it is very useful tocan also setadd a link forthat opens the panelrelated FileWave report, giving dashboard users a direct path to tie directly into a report in the webadmin.underlying device data.