Dashboard Types

Three types of dashboards provide great flexibility for creating user interfaces; Absolute, Relative and Class Instance.

Absolute dashboards are mostly used to display data coming from multiple sources, e.g. several devices.

An absolute dashboard is often used to display or control a pre-defined device or resource. The context name of the resource is hard-coded into the dashboard elements' parameters.

Absolute dashboards are opened by right-clicking on a dashboard context () and selecting the open dashboard action.

Relative dashboards show the status of a single device or resource that is not hard-coded into the dashboard's configuration. A relative dashboard is opened for a certain device/resource by right-clicking on it and selecting the launch dashboard action whose name matches the dashboards description (this action's icon is always ). It should also be noted that a relative dashboard placed on another relative dashboard will inherit the default context from its parent dashboard.

Class instance dashboards visualize state and fields of a specific class instance, as well as lists of class instances linked to it. A class instance dashboard can't be opened directly, those dashboards are instead launched via clicking on a specific class instance in class lists displayed on other dashboards. A Class Data Table or Class Field List component on a Class Instance Dashboards allows class instances linked by class relations to be viewed, modified, and for relations to be deleted.

If you plan to display subclasses with a Class Instance Dashboard, see the section Class Inheritance and Subclasses for information on how to correctly configure the dashboard to dynamically update when class instance data changes.

Was this page helpful?

Tell us more

Send

Thank you!