Published dashboards enable teams to build sets of chart views that are published in a rotating slideshow. Create different sets of dashboards for any area of your manufacturing facility:
- Production line
- Morning standup meeting area
- Break room
- Board room
- Main lobby
A published dashboard is accessed via a URL, enabling it to be displayed on a variety of devices including TVs.
Building Published Dashboards
Creating a Published Dashboard
To set up a published dashboard:
- Navigate to Settings > Published Dashboards.
- Give your dashboard a descriptive name to segregate it from other published dashboards.
- Select a layout option including full screen or split screen.
- Click Add View to add existing chart views to the rotation.
Published Dashboard Configuration Options
For each chart view in your dashboard, configure the following:
- Sort: The order in which this view appears in the rotation.
- Chart View" The chart view to display.
- Override Title: Optional custom title to display instead of the view's default name.
- Filter Group: Optional saved display filter group to apply to this view.
- Rotation Time (seconds): Sets how long the view is displayed in the slideshow rotation.
Launching the Dashboard
Click "Launch Dashboard" to open the published dashboard URL in a separate browser tab. Each published dashboard will be given its own URL.
Hardware Options for TV
Published dashboards can be displayed on any device that has a web browser. However. Essembi recommends devices that have a built in web browser that enables full screen mode and a home page to be set (typically available on most Smart TVs).
Suggested TV Brands
The following TVs are suggested based on the web-browser enabled:
- Samsung
- LG
- Amazon Fire TV
- Sony
- Hisense
Many TV brands enable a user to be created that can be shared across multiple devices with browser home pages set by default (e.g., LG's ThinQ and Samsung's Smart TV Remote apps).
Suggested Plug-In Devices with Web Browsing
The following devices can simplify the setup the published dashboards on a TV or be used to retrofit an old TV that does not have a great built-in web browser:
- Amazon Fire TV Stick
- Roku Devices
- Apple TV
- Google Chromecast
- NVIDIA Shield TV