Templates

Templates are preconfigured dashboards designed to display relevant information about an entity: device, asset, subscriber, subscription, and tickets.

Creating a Template

In the dashboard actions menu, select the “Save as template” option.

Dashboard actions Dashboard actions

You’ll be presented with a wizard to configure your template:

Template wizard Template wizard

  • Dashboard: Choose the dashboard for the template.
  • Workspace: Choose the workspace or workspaces where the template will be saved.
  • Name: Choose the name for the template.
  • Priority: Choose the priority for displaying different templates if you configure more than one for the same conditions.

Conditions

  • Allowed resource type: Choose the type of resource it will open.
  • Specific type: Choose the specific type or specific types of resource.
  • Datastreams: (optional) Choose datastreams witch preferred values.

Template Management

You can manage templates within a workspace from the Workspaces wizard:

Workspace template Workspace template

Also you can manage it in the Templates configuration section:

Templates configuration section Templates configuration section

You can delete and modify the templates configured for a workspace.

Templates configuration filters Templates configuration filters

Open Templates

From most widgets displaying information about an entity, you can access these templates to view the information of that device on a dashboard referred to as a “temporary” dashboard.

Template Menu Template Menu

Once you click on the link, you’ll be shown the “temporary/template” dashboard with the information from the entity you opened it from. There, you can choose which template you want to use to view the information for that entity:

Dashboard template Dashboard template

These dashboards can’t be managed, and any changes to filters won’t be saved. They can only be cloned within a workspace. A cloned dashboard will then function like any other dashboard.