Manufacturers and Models Browser
Here, you can consult and/or manage the manufacturers and models on the platform.
How it Works
Widget Menu
From the action menu of the widget, it will be possible to do the following:
- New manufacturer: allows you to run the creation wizard for manufacturer (provided you have the necessary permissions).
- New model: allows you to run the creation wizard for manufacturer model (provided you have the necessary permissions).
- Capture screen: Takes a screenshot of the widget.
- Duplicate widget: Creates a duplicate of the widget on the dashboard.
- Copy widget: Copies the widget to another dashboard.
- Change widget location: Moves the widget to another dashboard.
Any changes made will affect all organizations; therefore, maintenance is restricted to platform administrators.
Actions by Manufacturer
The following are the possible actions to be taken for each manufacturer:
- Images: If the manufacturer has attached images, this option will be displayed to view them in full screen.
- New Model: Opens the model creation wizard with the selected manufacturer pre-filled.
- Edit: Opens the manufacturer wizard where you can change the manufacturer’s details.
- Remove: Deletes the selected manufacturer as well as all the models associated with it.
By clicking the expand button, you can see the manufacturer’s details as well as a list of all available models, if any exist.
Actions by Model
The following are the possible actions for each of the available models for the manufacturer:
- Change Manufacturer: Allows you to directly move the model to another manufacturer.
- Edit: Opens the model configuration wizard to change its parameters.
- Remove: Deletes the selected item.
Configuration
General
- Boxed: widget will be displayed with background in dahsboard.
- About: widget description in Markdown format.
- Title: widget title. It can be configured to remain fixed in the widget or only be displayed when it receives focus.
- Toolbar: configures the behavior of the widget bar on the dashboard, allowing you to hide it, hide it when not in use, or leave it always visible.
- Refresh Frequency: allows configuring the data refresh frequency displayed in the list.
- Extra actions: allows user to add new specific actions to the widget with your own code.
You can add a new one by pressing the New button.
Once you added a custom action it can be modified later by pressing the name in the list.
In order to remove the custom action click the delete icon button on the right.
In extra actions you can write your own code were you can open other dashboards, entities dashboards or execute wizards.
You can find all available functions and methods in Extra parameters
- Items per Page: Configures the number of manufacturers to be displayed per page.

