(upbeat music)
- [Instructor] Now that we've integrated
our Advanced Reports and Dashboards module,
let's take a brief tour of its features.
I won't be covering every possible feature now,
but I recommend you review the Help link
and play with these tools yourself.
Everything here is designed to be end-user friendly.
To begin, let's go to the Dashboards.
A dashboard is a page of one or more gadgets
that display data in various forms.
The library on the left is managed in the same way
as our alarm views and trends.
I'll start by clicking the plus sign to add a new dashboard.
I'll give my dashboard a name
and add a gadget to it.
There are many gadgets available to me here,
and most of them are enabled by add-on modules,
so I'll focus on the ones that come with the base license.
Most of them are configured in the same way,
so let's start with a simple Trend Chart.
I can optionally give my gadget a title,
and then I need to select a data series.
This is one point that I want to view on my gadget.
I'll select one device from the Sources pane.
Note that the names here come from Advanced Reports,
so they could be named differently
from your Equipment hierarchy.
Under Measurements,
I can select a point that is being logged in the database.
At the bottom, I can change some display parameters,
including scaling the units
if I need to compare different values.
I'll add a couple of other data series
to compare their values.
Next, I'll select a time range,
though we'll see that this can be changed later.
Below, most gadgets aggregate data into buckets
rather than display individual samples,
so I can select my granularity.
The options here change based on the time range selected.
I have more graphical options that I can configure,
and then I can add a target line.
This is useful, for example,
if you have an over-demand penalty.
The target line allows you to track
whether you are nearing the penalty line
before an alarm would trigger.
Once finished,
the new trend gadget will be displayed on my dashboard.
I can quickly resize it,
change the time range,
copy the gadget,
or export its data to a CSV file.
On the left side,
I can change my dashboard's styling
by setting a background color or image.
As with the other tools,
my dashboard can be either Public,
viewable by everyone, or Private.
Once I save my dashboard, I have a few more features.
If I hover over a bar in the gadget,
I can see the exact value at that time.
I can also maximize the gadget
over any others that might be on the window.
I still have the option to edit the gadget,
or I can edit the dashboard as a whole in the library.
Before we finish here,
let's look at some of the other standard gadgets.
The Bar Chart and Pie Chart compare similar values
as you'd expect.
The Period Over Period chart is similar to the Trend Chart,
but it plots a single value against itself
in an earlier period,
say today against the same day last month.
The Energy Equivalency gadget
converts electrical values to other units,
for example, kWh to tons of coal.
You can also convert your energy to currency
to track your monetary consumption.
The Table gadget works a bit differently.
Instead of pulling from the database,
this polls for data in real-time.
I can choose some measurements,
but it's easier to select a template
and then choose the devices that I want to poll.
The last gadget is the Web Viewer.
This allows you to pull up any page
that is accessible to the server and view it in a dashboard.
I've used this to display weather data
or a BMS page directly in my project.
We've flown through the basics of the dashboards,
but I highly recommend
you get your hands on this tool directly.
Dashboards are designed to be easy
for anyone to put together their own useful views
and delete them when done.
Next, we'll see how dashboards can be distributed to users
without needing full access to the project with Slideshows.
Until then, thank you.