Dashboard Properties

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This property defines basic options of a dashboard.

Field Description

Field Name

Dashboard Name. Name of the dashboard context, required to refer to this dashboard from other parts of the system. It should satisfy the context naming conventions.

name

Dashboard Description. Textual description of the dashboard. This is also the description of the dashboard context.

description

Title Expression. Dashboard title that appears on the top of dashboard window. If title is not specified, its Description used instead. Title can be a plain string or an expression. If it's an expression, it's evaluated into string to allow titles of relative dashboards display values from contexts those data is displayed on dashboard.

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Example: Assuming we are creating a dashboard that shows device power status, we may set Title Expression to 'Power Status: ' + {.#description}. It will include description of device context, e.g. "Power Status: Device213".

Title Expression Resolution Environment:

Default Context

Context for that a relative dashboard is opened.

Default Data Table

None.

Default Row

0

Environment Variables

Standard variables only.

title

Type. Type of the dashboard: Absolute or Relative.

type

Validity Expression. Determines which context(s) may be "understood" by the dashboards. See Validity Expression for more information.

validityExpression

Validity Update Rules. A list of context masks and event names. If event specified by Event field of this table occurs in any of context matching to the mask specified by Mask field in the same record, Validity Expression will be recalculated for this context. This allows to make dashboard valid/invalid for a certain context if some changes occur in it.

validityListeners

This property may be accessed via the childInfo variable.