Views — Overview¶

What is "Views"?¶

Views is one of the main sections of the app, opened from the main sidebar. Where Dashboard gives you one fixed summary screen, Views is a workspace of multiple saved screens — each one called a view — that you can flip between using tabs at the top of the page.

Think of each view as a purpose-built screen someone in your organisation has already set up for a specific job:

• "Show me the live status of every machine on the shop floor."
• "Show me today's energy consumption by workspace."
• "Show me a mimic diagram of the electrical panel with live readings on it."
• "Show me a table comparing a set of parameters across machines."

Instead of hunting for the right numbers yourself, you open the matching tab and the screen is already arranged the way that job needs it.

Why it's useful¶

• Everything in one place. A view can combine live parameter readings, machine status, trends, and tables on a single screen, so you don't have to jump between separate pages to get the full picture.
• Built for the job, not generic. Each view is arranged around a specific purpose (a shift briefing, a panel mimic, an energy summary), so the information you need is already front and center instead of buried in a generic dashboard.
• Live. Views update in real time as new data arrives — leave a tab open on a shop-floor display and it stays current on its own.
• Multiple screens, one place to find them. Rather than switching between different pages/URLs for different summaries, all your organisation's screens live as tabs in one section.
• Shareable setup. Once someone with engineering access builds a view, everyone else in the organisation who opens Views sees the same tab and gets the same information, presented the same way.

Finding your way around¶

• Tabs — Each tab across the top is one view. Click a tab to switch to it. The icon on each tab hints at what kind of view it is (a diagram, a table, a grid of widgets, and so on).
• Search — Use the search box to jump straight to a view by name if you have a lot of tabs.
• Filter — Use the filter button to narrow the tab list down to only certain kinds of views, or only specific views, when there are too many tabs to scan.
• Auto-change / auto-scroll — A view can be set to automatically rotate through the tabs every so often. This is meant for unattended displays (a TV on the shop floor, a control-room monitor) that should keep cycling through the important screens without anyone touching them.
• Add to Dashboard — Any view can be pinned so it also shows up on the main Dashboard, if you want quicker access to it than clicking into Views every time.

The kinds of views you'll encounter¶

Every tab you see is one of the following kinds. Each has its own detailed guide (linked below) — this overview just tells you what to expect when you land on one.

A note on editing views¶

Views are built and maintained by people with engineering access. If you have that access, you'll additionally see controls to create, edit, reorder, or delete views, and to add content to them. If you don't have engineering access, you'll simply see the finished views as read-only screens — nothing about viewing them requires any setup on your part.