What is a Dashboard?

You can access the summary of your data or different views of information inside of your data with dashboards.

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Dashboards are also the most convenient method to give brief information to C-level managers. It is possible to save a dynamically changing panel as a PDF and share it with your manager.

Adding Dashboards

We can treat the dashboards as a blank page in the beginning. We fill this blank page with widgets. Each widget has a certain ability. The Map Widget presents the map. The graphic widget shows the changes in the data. With the Pivot Table widget, we can group and gather up the data. GEODI and MOBIDI Office comes with many widgets. You can use these widgets in any way you want and create an unlimited number of dashboards.

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You see an example dashboard below. Each section you see here is a widget and you can use many of the same widgets and make each of them look different by changing its settings.

Adding Widgets

We have a menu for widgets. The widgets you can use in the dashboards are on this menu. You can add any of it with the pick and drop method. It is also possible to use a widget for multiple times. If the place you add is next to another widget it will fill the remaining part, but if it is an empty spot then it will fill the full of the cell.

Widget Settings

Each widget has two different settings pages. General Settings is where you set common features for all widgets. Widget settings is where you set specific values ​​for the widgets you are using. Before we begin to explain the widgets, let's first check the General Settings.

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NOTE: In order for an icon to appear on your widget, the “Frame” option must be checked.

Widget Layout

As we claimed, the dashboard is a blank place and we can fill these blanks with widgets. You determine the width and size of the wigdets. The map can be full width or half. You make this preference by line overlay.

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A dashboard is formed with lines like this. Although there is no limit on the number of widgets, a dashboard with more than one page can make clarity a little difficult.

Dashboard Management

To make changes in a dashboard, you need to switch it to the edit mode. After reaching the edit mode, you can add new widgets, delete them or change their places.

Changing the name of the dashboards, deleting them completely or making a copy can also be done when the dashboard is in edit mode.

Suggestions

Contents such as colors, outlines of the widgets, icons, descriptions can be done from general settings. For those who prepare it, the functionality and outcome that comes from the dashboard could be the only priority. But users often evaluate the outcome by its appearance first and then by its functionality. For this reason, we recommend you to pay attention to appearance when preparing dashboards. Appearance means colors, placement, appropriateness of descriptions.

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The name of the dashboards, the names, and descriptions of the widgets make it easier for the user to detect and realize the dashboards.

Widgets

There are many widgets you can use in the dashboards. Let’s explain each one individually. As we said that it is possible to use a widget more than once. The change of the same data by time can be in one graph, and the change by the team can be in another graph. In both cases, the same widget will be used.

Date Select Widget

The date selection widget is a special one that affects queries of other widgets.

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"Don't be affected by the Date Widget" should be marked in the settings of the widgets if you do not want some widgets to be affected by the dynamic date selection.

Queries

As we said that each widget has its own settings. There are some common areas in these settings. Once you learn one of them, you can apply it to all widgets. The query tool comes first.

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It is not necessary to give a date range in the query, except in very special cases. Because the “Date Selection Widget” allows the user to dynamically adjust this filter. Let's give an example for the special case: In a dashboard, if you are looking to have one side with last year’s activity and other side with this year's activity, you have to use date range in your query.

Chart Widget

The Chart widget can create graphs from your data based on a wide variety of criteria.

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Sorting: Sorting specifies the value and ranking to be used on the horizontal axis. For example, if you select the date as Axis, you can sort ascending/descending or set it according to the value in those dates.

Pivot Table Widget

Pivot Table is used to perform a summary analysis in a dataset. It is similar to the use of the Excel pivot.

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Sequencing: Works as mentioned in the other widgets.

Map Widget

The map widget draws the query. The query page that opens in the map widget has a tab called General Drawing Properties.

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Various options can be opened by right-clicking on the map. These options may vary depending on the modules you install.

Table Widget

The widget that shows queries in lists.

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The line you clicked opens the record editing page on a separate page.

Single Number Widget

A widget that shows the query result as a single value. With this widget, you can create a large number of summaries of data such as total work done, minimum time spent (MIN), maximum spent time (MAX), average time spending (AVG), total staff used in a job (DISTINCT). For these operations, you can summarize the data with operators such as MIN, MAX, AVG, DISTINCT.

Odd Number widgets are usually located at the top of the dashboard.

Multiple Row Number Widget

The multi-number widget is adding a new dimension to single number widget by showing the change of summary information by Personnel, Time, or other value.

Report Button Widget

MOBIDI can also generate excel or Html reports in cases where dashboards are not enough. You can get these reports with a button you will put on your dashboard.

Admin Widgets

System Information Widget

The System Information widget will inform you about the memory used by the software. This widget is for the use of system administrators.

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Active Users Widget

This widget shows active users that can use Mobidi Office. This tool is for the use of system administrators. You can list mobile users with many widgets described above and make analyses on user basis.

Sharing Dashboards

The people you share the Dashboards with must be registered users. If you want to share a Dashboard offline, you can use the browser PDF print feature. The PDF you created will be visually the same of the dashboard but it will be static.