Widgets

Widgets are individual applications that run within eze.io's Dashboards. The “Add Widget” button described in the previous section, will bring up a list of available Widgets. This list will continue to grow, as new Widgets are developed. Below are a few categories of Widgets.

• Historical Data - Line graph, Stacked Bar Graph

• Instantaneous Data - Field value, Field value as gauge, Field value table

• Aggregated Data - Aggregated Map (shows multiple ezeio locations), Aggregated Tag Value, Circular Gauge (Tag Value & Circular Gauge allow multiple “Field” values to be calculated as sums, average, min or max)

• Control - On/Off Switch, Push Button, Field Value with Editor

• External - External application (can be pointed to a web address to show a website, video, Internet video camera.

• System Info - Clock

• Text - Note widget

The direction icon in the upper left corner of all widgets is used like a handle to drag them into position. While hovering over the icon, simply click-hold and drag. As you drag, widgets will snap into position in the invisible grid.

The height and width of a widget can be resized by dragging the lower right corner. While hovering over the lower right corner, simply click-hold and drag. A shadow indicates the new size of the widget, snapping to the next grid line as you drag.

Widgets can be placed one above the other partial or totally obscuring the lower layer widgets. The default layer order is based on the order the widgets were created. Use the layer tool on the dashboard header to rearrange the layer order.

Click on the icon in the upper left corner of the a widget to access it's settings.

An image of single widget can selected for printing or PDF by clicking the printer icon (upper left) in the “Edit settings” dialog box of all widgets

When linking a widget to data source/s three methods are used;

• Filtering by Device Driver
• Selecting specific Field/s
• Referencing asset tags

Filtering by device Driver

Most HotSpotAg widgets automatically find assets by locating their drivers within a group or branch of the group tree. The available “Device Drivers” for the desired assets are listed in the widget's drop down menu. Click the check boxes of the desired device drivers to be included.

Use the “Group Depth Crawl” selector to control the groups accessed by the widget. Typically, a dashboard (and its widgets) have access to controllers on its own group and groups below it on the same branch of the group tree. The “Group Crawl Depth” sets how far down a branch the automated crawl will search for assets/drivers.

Selecting specific Fields

Many standard widgets allow the user to select one or more Fields from a drop-down menu (as shown in the image below). A tree of Groups and their ezeio controllers can be expanded to reveal individual fields available as data sources for a widget.

Referencing asset tags

This method is used mainly for aggregate value widgets. These widgets use asset tags (assigned to Fields) as means of incorporating multiple data points into a single value.

If the tag refers to multiple data points, choose the desired aggregation method.