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To create a dashboard display, you need to navigate to the Draw Editorand click on the Create Display button.

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  • Symbols: User made symbols and built-in symbols, that are located in the Symbol library, can be used in dashboard displays. 

Graphic elements such as buttons, textboxes, and checkboxes , etc are not available by default in dashboard displays. To use these graphic elements in your dashboard display, you need to create a symbol with these components and use the symbol in your dashboard display. 

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Dashboard elements have a property called Title that can be accessed through the panel on the left-side of the Draw Editor.


Dashboard Features

 Themes

Dashboards can have their appearance A dashboard's appearance can be modified by applying different Themes. On Run-Extension-Themes, you can create and/or customize many different themes to change the look and feel of your Dashboard dashboard elements.


To enable this feature, select the Enable Theme checkbox in the left panel. 

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CodeBehind Callback (Only for Advanced Customization)

Dashboard The properties of dashboard items can have their properties be modified through the callback added to the CodeBehind using the syntax below:

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Using the .Net callback described above, our Titles would titles look something like this picture in Runtimeruntime.


The Title also supports Tags and Project Objects by placing them between curly brackets. The curly Curly brackets are used so the product runtime can handle the element as a project variable, instead of as usual text. See some examples below.

Code Block
Title: {Client.DateTime}
Title: {Tag.MyTextTag}
Title: {Server.ComputerName}


 

With the Project runningIn runtime, the elements can be maximized by clicking on the button indicated by the (1) below or resized by dragging the button indicated by the (2) below.

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