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Version: 24.2 (stable)

Dashboard Page

Purpose: Make it simple to check the machine's performance, even from far away. Help users make choices based on how it's working now.

About​

A Dashboard Page provides a brief overview of the key figures, settings, and states of an industrial machine.

  • This overview allows users to monitor and manage the machine's performance and make informed decisions.
  • Dashboards provide vital information in a structured and easy-to-understand format. This layout helps operators rapidly recognize issues and take the required steps to maximize machine performance and minimize downtime.
  • A dashboard is not scrollable and should, therefore, contain only a limited number of widgets.

Anatomy​

  1. Title and Icon

  2. Dashboard Widget

    1. Title

    2. Content

Page Properties​

General

Title

Will be displayed in the navigation and the page header.

Page reference

This optional property lets you define unique short code that is human readable and helps to refer to that page without specifying its actual name. This is helpful especially in multilingual environments because

  • It helps your Support-Team to quickly navigate users.
  • It can be picked up by the product manual and documentation.
Example reference in main navigation
Example reference in the page title

Icon

This icon will be displayed in the main navigation, the page header, and inside an embedded navigation of a Page Group.

Main Navigation

Show/Hide Page

Each page is automatically displayed in the main navigation. If you do not want the page to be visible in the main navigation, select `Hide page`. The page will remain reachable and can be opened as an overlay or navigated to directly.
Page Section Conditions

Page header

The Page's Header will be displayed by default. Select this option to choose to hide the Page header generally or set conditions for when you want to hide it, for instance on smaller displays.
Display Condition

Condition

Determines whether an element or page should be visible or hidden to the current user. The condition can be set to different types of Dynamic Property – as long as the the type returns true or false you're good to go.

Specific Properties​

Custom Layout

Declare a custom Layout for your Dashboard Page. This Layout will be used whenever possible, otherwise HELIO will use the Magic Layout as a fallback. Be aware that this feature is still in Beta, so please use it with caution!

Slots​

Widgets

Add elements to this slot to fill the dashboard with content. Each widget can display icon, title and a main action.

Child Elements

Collection WidgetDashboard Widget

Footer

Allows you to add action buttons to the footer, which will always be visible at the bottom of the page. Use this feature for significant actions that can be triggered on this page. It's perfect for the most important actions you can execute on a page.

Bear in mind that the footer does take up a bit of vertical screen space, something to think about if you're creating HMIs mostly for smaller screen sizes.

Child Elements

ButtonFlexible SpacerFixed-Size Spacer

Elements

Linear FlowLinear Flow Module

Actions

Open Page as Overlay Action