How to create a dashboard with perspectives

Question & Answer
#1

I’m trying to create a blank dashboard to monitor an application and some webtests. Doing so is not an issue.

However I want to add perspectives to that dashboard, which I cannot. This is so I can get an unified view of the application.

It seems I have to start with a specific object to link the perspectives to. However I don’t have a specific object as the application consists of tons of servers and webtests. I tried creating a blank DA to link the perspectives to, but I end up with default perspectives that don’t do anything in this case (alerts, components, etc), and I don’t know if I can remove them just for that DA and not affect all perspectives.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Darren

#2
I don’t know if I can remove them just for that DA and not affect all perspectives.
Editing/removing the out of the box perspectives will affect all DAs.

Sounds like you might be looking for the Convert to Dashboard button for a perspective, created against the DA. View your perspective > Settings cog > Settings button > add perspective to navigation bar:

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This will hide the ribbon from view when viewing it from the navigation bar and will achieve what you’re after :slight_smile: Let me know if you run into any issues.

#3

Hi. I’m not wanting to hide the ribbon. I’m wanting to use the ribbon to have different perspectives, but not be tied to a specific object since I’m covering a lot of areas with this view. Creating a DA to link the perspectives to has a lot of default views which cannot be deleted (alerts, components, etc) - but I want my custom ones to show.

Net result is I want a “Communications” view/dashboard that has perspectives of Skype for Business, Unified Messaging, PBX devices, IM. So creating perspectives and linking to an object doesn’t work, since it’s a lot of areas and objects.

Sort of a tabbed view I guess…

#4

Just for other people reference, in the end I just used a new DA as my object and got mostly to where I wanted to. The DA is really a placeholder to link the perspectives to, nothing more.

In the DA I put in some components that contained the groups that contained servers relating to my Application (ensuring my health rollups were working correctly on the group). I then created the custom perspectives scoped to that DA. This made most of the default perspectives work - except performance (I need to look more at that), rather than not displaying anything from a blank DA.

I then published the Alerts perspective to the Navigation bar.

The downside is my “dashboard” does not have a nice friendly name in the URL, but not a biggie really.

This is probably closest I can get to achieving a dashboard not linked to a particular object that’s part of an existing application.

#5

oops accidentally down voted your answer and it won’t let me upvote it without undoing my vote (still can’t figure out how to). Big Apologies!

#6

It’s all good! It’s not like I need the points :wink: I’ve removed the duplicate below also :slight_smile:

#7

Ah I see. It sounds like you really do need a dashboard with perspectives. That’s an interesting use case, I wonder if it’s worth dropping support a line?

#8

Yeah I’ll give it some thought about writing it up as a suggestion :slight_smile: