Dashboards

Your own page

A dashboard is a page you put together once and look at every day. You put the few readings that really matter on it, and nothing else.

What you can put on it

Value tiles, one big figure, the kiln humidity, readable from the far end of the workshop. Curves, for the trend. Tables, to compare several sensors at a glance. Gauges, when you want to see a value against its limit. A map, when sites are spread out.

Each item is moved and resized with the mouse, like bricks on a grid. You give it a readable title and move on to the next.

Several boards, several trades

At Les Ateliers du Vent d'Ouest there are three. The workshop one, shown permanently on a screen near the bench: humidity of both kilns, workshop temperature, state of the extraction. The management one: the month's electricity use against the same month last year. And the on-call one, very short, which Yanis opens on his phone at weekends.

Who sees what

A dashboard can stay private, be shared with your colleagues, or be opened more widely depending on your space's settings. Sharing grants no new rights: someone who has no access to a sensor will not see it appear through a shared board.

You can experiment safely

Building a board touches no data at all. You move tiles, delete some, start again: the readings themselves do not shift by a hair. It is the safest screen in the whole tool to practise on.