Customizing a Dashboard for Alignia Monitoring Room

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Customizing A Dashboard for Alignia Monitoring Room

Once created, dashboards can be customized to change their appearance, have widgets added or removed, and have access rights re-assigned. However, you can only customize dashboards that you've created. Shared dashboards created by another user are view-only.

The easiest way to customize the look of the dashboard is to rearrange the widgets. Simply click and hold the widget title bar and drag it to where you want it. However, keep in mind that if you're going to view this on a mobile device, the widgets will display in order by column (first, second, third).

To rearrange widgets:

In the Dashboard tool bar, toggle Edit mode On when viewing your dashboard.
Hover over the widget you would like to move or split.
To split a widget, click on one of the arrow icons to split the widget pane in half in that direction.
To move a widget to a different pane, click on the Move icon. Then, click on the widget pane where you would like to move the widget.

NOTE: If there is an existing widget in the target pane, that widget will be switched with the moving widget.

For other dashboard changes:

In the Navigation Pane, click Dashboards. If the menu is hidden, hover over the Navigation Pane to expand it.
Click the dashboard name.

In the Dashboard tool bar, toggle Edit mode On. The tool bar background color changes from blue to yellow.
Click the Edit button in the top left of the screen. The Edit Dashboard panel is displayed.

TIP: You can also click the

Show Actions button for the dashboard and select Edit Dashboard from the pop-up menu.

In the Edit Dashboard panel, you can make the following changes:

Edit the Name.
Edit the Description.
In the Time section, toggle Auto-Refresh On or Off and enter the amount of minutes between automatic dashboard refresh. The default setting is 5 minutes.
Toggle Business Hours On or Off to define the business hours. If left turned off, this dashboard operates on a 24x7 basis.
Edit the Default Time Range.
Select from a list of Users to allow others to view this dashboard.
Select from a list of Groups to allow others to view this dashboard.
Click the Guest button to On to allow users who log on with the Guest profile to see this dashboard. The only thing Guest users can do is view dashboards marked as Guest. For more on the Guest profile, see Authentication.

When the required changes have been made, click Save.

TIP: Toggle Edit mode Off to prevent any further changes being unexpectedly made to this dashboard.