Opening Dashboards

There are several ways to open a dashboard:

  • Using the Open Dashboard action of a Dashboard Context. This method should be used for absolute dashboards. For relative dashboards, this method will open the dashboard for the Iotellect Server root context, causing wrong behaviour in most cases.

  • Using an Open Dashboard action (see below) to start a relative dashboard for a certain device or system resource.

Open Dashboard Action

This action may be found in every context for those relative dashboard's validity expression is true. When the Open Dashboard action is started in some context, this context becomes a default context for the opening dashboard. For example, if a User Overview dashboard is created for a User context (e.g. has Validity Expression {.#type} == 'user'), an action called User Overview will appear in the context of every Iotellect Server user. Its description is the same as that of the dashboard itself. Actions that are used to open dashboards may be easily recognized by a icon.

Relative dashboards will install their Open Dashboard Action only into contexts that are accessible for the dashboard owner according to his permissions.

To be able to launch this action, the user must have an effective permission level of Observer in two contexts:

  • Dashboard context of the actual dashboard being launched

  • The context on which the dashboard operates, i.e. the one where Launch Action is defined

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