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Custom Dashboard

Custom Dashboard

You can customize your dashboard experience—modify existing layouts by adding or deleting widgets, or create entirely new dashboards with your preferred widgets.

The following customizations are available:

Note: Customizations are saved across navigations, logouts, reboots, and upgrades, and are specific to each user.

The widget library has also been improved for a more seamless user experience. For more information, see Managing Dashboard Widgets.

Creating a New Dashboard

You can now create new custom dashboards and add widgets from the widget library.

To create a new dashboard:

  1. On the left navigation pane, select Dashboard and click +.


  2. In the Add custom dashboard pane, enter a name for the dashboard in the Label field.

  3. Click Create.
    Add widgets to the newly created dashboard. See Modifying an Existing Dashboard.

Modifying an Existing Dashboard

You can customize both existing dashboards and default dashboards by adding/deleting widgets or renaming the dashboards.

Note: You can add a maximum of 20 widgets in a dashboard.

To add a widget to the dashboard:

  1. Select the dashboard you want to modify.

  2. Click Add Widget to add required widgets from the widget library.

  3. In the the Manage Dashboard Widgets pane, hover on the widget name to select the required widget and click +.
    For more information on widget library, see Managing Dashboard Widgets

  4. Click Close to close the pane once the widgets are selected.

  5. Click Reset dashboard layout to clear all the widgets added to the dashboard.

To change the name/label of the dashboard:

  1. Select a dashboard and from the Actions menu click Edit.

  2. Change the name of the dashboard in the Label field and click Update.

Deleting a Dashboard

Both default dashboards and user-added dashboards can be deleted.

Select the dashboard to be deleted and from the Actions menu click Delete.

Note: Dashboards once deleted cannot be recovered.

Rearranging the Dashboards

You can move a dashboard up or down to rearrange the dashboard list.

To rearrange your dashboards, click and drag a dashboard up or down in the list.

Resetting the Dashboard Section

You can remove all your customized dashboards and revert to the default view.

Hover over + and from the Actions menu, click Reset section.

Custom Dashboard

Custom Dashboard

You can customize your dashboard experience—modify existing layouts by adding or deleting widgets, or create entirely new dashboards with your preferred widgets.

The following customizations are available:

Note: Customizations are saved across navigations, logouts, reboots, and upgrades, and are specific to each user.

The widget library has also been improved for a more seamless user experience. For more information, see Managing Dashboard Widgets.

Creating a New Dashboard

You can now create new custom dashboards and add widgets from the widget library.

To create a new dashboard:

  1. On the left navigation pane, select Dashboard and click +.


  2. In the Add custom dashboard pane, enter a name for the dashboard in the Label field.

  3. Click Create.
    Add widgets to the newly created dashboard. See Modifying an Existing Dashboard.

Modifying an Existing Dashboard

You can customize both existing dashboards and default dashboards by adding/deleting widgets or renaming the dashboards.

Note: You can add a maximum of 20 widgets in a dashboard.

To add a widget to the dashboard:

  1. Select the dashboard you want to modify.

  2. Click Add Widget to add required widgets from the widget library.

  3. In the the Manage Dashboard Widgets pane, hover on the widget name to select the required widget and click +.
    For more information on widget library, see Managing Dashboard Widgets

  4. Click Close to close the pane once the widgets are selected.

  5. Click Reset dashboard layout to clear all the widgets added to the dashboard.

To change the name/label of the dashboard:

  1. Select a dashboard and from the Actions menu click Edit.

  2. Change the name of the dashboard in the Label field and click Update.

Deleting a Dashboard

Both default dashboards and user-added dashboards can be deleted.

Select the dashboard to be deleted and from the Actions menu click Delete.

Note: Dashboards once deleted cannot be recovered.

Rearranging the Dashboards

You can move a dashboard up or down to rearrange the dashboard list.

To rearrange your dashboards, click and drag a dashboard up or down in the list.

Resetting the Dashboard Section

You can remove all your customized dashboards and revert to the default view.

Hover over + and from the Actions menu, click Reset section.