Dashboards and Their Elements

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Dashboards can hold cards, decks, canvases, and report modules. The initial home screen will be blank before adding a dashboard. Once you add a dashboard, you can add instances of cards, decks, and canvases.

Cards are the primary means to visualize network data and control equipment from a web browser. Cards allow users to change setpoints and view equipment point values. To be able to command a point from a card, the point must be made commandable (under the Type column) in the device profile (for example, Analog > Command). You do not have to configure points you don’t want to use.

Decks are an optional method of organizing the cards (such as the most critical cards or all the cards related to a particular floor). Decks can show a carousel of the included cards.

Canvases are creative spaces to arrange points and/or zone shapes (both with customizable colors and opacity) on a background image uploaded from your computer. Displaying live point values on equipment graphics and floor plans are typical uses.

After configuring report settings in Reports , you can add an instance of a report module or a report card to a (non-global) dashboard to display the report.

Dashboards and their elements are specific to user logins. Decks added by a system administrator or technician for a site will be available to add to the dashboard of that customer. This is a convenient way for a customer to create their own dashboard without needing to create each card from scratch.

In the KMC license server, KMC can also add a customer image URL to the license. The logo or other image will then display to the left of the project name on the dashboard. (To use this feature, supply KMC Controls with the image’s URL address.)