# Dashboard
The dashboard is used to display useful information to Valtimo users at a glance. Dashboards can provide the user with statistical information. Using this information, the user will be enabled to prioritize and focus on specific tasks.
A dashboard contains a set of widgets that display data in a customised way. These dashboards and widgets can be configured by an administrator accordingly.
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**Concepts**
* **Dashboard** A container for any number of widgets. Multiple dashboards can be configured, which will be shown to the user as tabs.
* **Widget** Presents data from a datasource using a display-type to the user.
* **Data-source** Every dashboard widget retrieves its data from a data-source.
* **Display-type** A display type is responsible for the visualisation of data. For example: bar char, big number, meter, gauge, or any custom. Display types are only available for data-sources that return the required data.
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## Creating a dashboard
There are two ways of configuring dashboards:
* Manually via the UI
* Using auto-deployment via the IDE
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{% tab title="Via UI" %}
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Configuring dashboards requires:
* Admin privileges
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* Go to the `Admin` menu
* Go to the `Dashboard` menu
* Click on **Add new dashboard**
* Fill in the form
 
When creating a dashboard, two fields need to be filled in:
* The 'Dashboard name' will be shown to the user on the dashboard page.
* The 'Description' field is only visible for the system administrator. It will not be shown to the end users.
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{% tab title="Via IDE" %}
Dashboards can be auto-deployed from a json file at startup. This is useful to keep the dashboard configuration identical across multiple environments. Dashboards are auto-deployed by scanning files on the classpath that end in `.dashboard.json`.
**Changesets**
Every deployment file for represents a changeset. These files are required to contain a changesetId that should be unique over all deployment files that use changesets. When starting up, changesets that have already been executed will be ignored. A checksum of the changeset is created when it is executed. Changesets that have already been deployed should not change. Changesets that have been changed since a previous time will result in an error and failure to start the application.
All changesets can be executed again, even when the content has changed, by setting the `valtimo.changelog.dashboard.clear-tables` property to `true`.
**Example**
You can find an example of the JSON below.
In this example a widget is created with display type `number` and data source `case-count`. Different [display types](/features/dashboard/widget-display-types.md) and [data sources](/features/dashboard/dashboard.md) can be used to customize the layout of the dashboard.
```json
{
"changesetId": "example-dashboard-v1",
"dashboards": [
{
"key": "example-dashboard",
"title": "Dashboard",
"description": "This is an example dashboard",
"order": 1,
"widgetConfigurations": [
{
"key": "nr_of_cases_awaiting_customer_feedback",
"title": "Nr of cases awaiting customer feedback",
"dataSourceKey": "case-count",
"dataSourceProperties": {
"documentDefinition": "generic-case-type",
"queryConditions": [
{
"queryPath": "doc:status",
"queryOperator": "==",
"queryValue": "AWAITING_FEEDBACK"
}
]
},
"displayType": "number",
"displayTypeProperties": {
"title": "Nr of cases awaiting customer feedback",
"subtitle": "Of type ",
"label": null,
"useKPI": true,
"lowSeverityThreshold": 25,
"mediumSeverityThreshold": 50,
"highSeverityThreshold": 75
}
}
]
}
]
}
```
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## Adding widgets
After creating a dashboard, widgets can be added to the dashboard.
{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Via UI" %}
* Go to the `Admin` menu
* Go to the `Dashboard` menu
* Click the dashboard that needs to be configured
* Click on **Add new widget**
* Fill in the form
 
{% endtab %}
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Widgets can also be configured via a JSON editor:
* Go to the `Admin` menu
* Go to the `Dashboards` menu
* Select a dashboard
* Click on **The code icon**
* Click on **Edit**
* Configure a new widget, delete a widget or edit an existing widget
* Click **Save**
This allows for faster editing of widgets or exchanging different dashboard widgets configurations throughout different environments.
## Access control
Access to dashboards can be configured through access control. More information about access control can be found in the [access control documentation](/features/access-control.md).
### Resources and actions
Resource type
Action
Effect
com.ritense.dashboard.domain.Dashboard
view
Allows viewing the data of one dashboard.
view_list
Allows viewing the dashboard tabs.
### Examples
Permission to view all dashboards and data
Permission to view the data of one specific dashboard
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```json
[
{
"resourceType": "com.ritense.dashboard.domain.Dashboard",
"action": "view",
"conditions": [
{
"type": "field",
"field": "key",
"operator": "==",
"value": "management-dashboard"
}
]
},
{
"resourceType": "com.ritense.dashboard.domain.Dashboard",
"action": "view_list",
"conditions": [
{
"type": "field",
"field": "key",
"operator": "==",
"value": "management-dashboard"
}
]
}
]
```
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