Overview

This guide explains how to add widgets in Fusion to enhance your dashboards with visualizations and insights tailored to your needs. Adding widgets allows you to introduce new metrics, charts, and data representations to keep your dashboards comprehensive and actionable.

By understanding how to add widgets effectively, you can:

• Expand the functionality of your dashboards with relevant data visualizations.
• Create custom layouts that meet specific team or project requirements.
• Monitor new data sources and key performance indicators (KPIs).

Getting Here

First, Edit the Dashboard

To add widgets to a dashboard, you must first Edit the dashboard..

To edit a dashboard, use the following steps.

1. From the main menu, navigate to Dashboards > All.
2. Click the row options icon at the beginning of the row that includes the custom dashboard.
3. Click Edit.
   At the top of the page, an unlock button displays, indicating the dashboard is in Edit mode. You can click this button to exit edit mode.

or Create a New Dashboard

If the dashboard doesn't have embedded widgets yet, the following message displays:

No widgets to display.
Add widget (link)

1. Click Add widget.
2. Complete form fields and options.

Add Widget

Complete the Add Widget form to create an embedded widget into the dashboard selected.

Widget Title

• Name: Enter a name for the widget. This is a required field and will be displayed as the widget's title on the dashboard.
• Description: Provide a brief description of the widget. This optional field can help clarify the purpose or content of the widget.

Widget Preview

A real-time widget preview is shown on the right side of the screen, updating as you configure the settings. This lets you see how the widget will appear on the dashboard before saving it.

Details

The Details section enables you to customize your widgets(s) using the many options listed.

Category*

Different categories make use of different Widget types.

See Widget Types Glossary for more details.

Metric*

Specify the metric that the widget will display. This can be inherited from global settings or selected manually.

Size (Top)*

Set the size or aggregate function for the data displayed at the top of the widget.

NQL

• Inherit: Use the NQL settings inherited from the global configuration.
• Override: Override the global NQL settings with custom NQL for this widget.
• Append: Append additional NQL to the inherited settings.

Stacked Graph

Toggle this option if you want the graph to be stacked, which can be helpful in visualizing cumulative data.

Chart Color

Choose a color for the widget's graph or chart from the available palette.

Add Series

Click this button to add additional data series to the widget. Each series can have its own settings and visual style.

Settings

• Date & Time: Select whether to inherit the date and time settings or customize them specifically for this widget.

• Display Options:

  • Show Title: Toggle whether to display the widget title.
  • Show Metric: Toggle whether to display the metric name on the widget.
  • Show Legend: Toggle whether to show the legend, which helps identify different data series.

• Legend Position: Choose the legend's position (e.g., bottom, top, left, right).

• Save: Click this button to save the widget and add it to the dashboard.

• Cancel: Click this button to cancel the widget creation process and return to the dashboard without making changes.