Introduction¶

System Manual ¶

Welcome¶

Dashboard Designer Add On dashboards offer an extensive library of visualizations that provide at-a-glance views of data for tracking metrics and drilling down into data. Select how you want to visualize your data and take advantage of our powerful query functions to precisely target the data to include and how to present it. In addition to being able to import dashboards, you can link your dashboard to internal and external Internet locations, as well as to other Dashboard Designer Add On dashboards.

Anyone can use Dashboard Designer Add On to create beautiful, informative dashboards. No programming knowledge needed.

Gain insight into your data by visualizing it in the way that makes sense to you.

Insights Hub Dashboard Designer Introduction video

Insights Hub Dashboard Designer - Most common types of charts video

Navigating to Dashboard Designer Add On¶

Access the application by clicking on the Dashboard Designer Add On icon on the Insights Hub Monitor Launchpad:

Visualizations and Plugins¶

These visualizations and plugins are included in your Dashboard Designer Add On subscription:

Basic:

• Clock
• Pie Chart
• Table
• Gauge
• Text
• Dashboard List
• Graph

Advanced:

• Bar Gauge
• Heatmap
• Discreet Panel
• Alert List
• Singlestat

Third-Party:

• ImageIT
• Breadcrumb
• Cal - Heatmap
• Statusmap
• Traffic Light
• SVG, which faciltates sophisticated visualizations using JavaScript

Security Information¶

Siemens provides products and solutions with industrial security functions that support the secure operation of plants, systems, machines and networks. To protect against cyber security threats, Siemens's products and solutions implement and continuously maintain a holistic and state-of-the-art industrial security concept.

Customers are responsible for preventing unauthorized access to their plants, systems, machines and networks. Such systems, machines and components should only be connected to an enterprise network or the internet if, and to the extent such a connection is necessary, and only when appropriate security measures (e.g. firewalls and/or network segmentation) are in place.

For additional information on industrial security measures you may want to implement, please visit the Industrial Security page on the Siemens website.

General Data Protection Regulations¶

Siemens observes the principles of data protection, in particular the principle of data minimization (privacy by design).

Dashboard Designer Add On processes and/or stores only the personal data necessary and essential for logging into the site, billing, internal user administration, and identifying authorized users. This data includes user:

• email addresses
• roles
• dashboard templates
• dashboard usage data

Users cannot store data anonymously, nor can data be pseudonymized, due to the essential need to identify authorized users.

Dashboard Designer Add On does not offer automatic deletion of data; data must be deleted manually. Please contact customer support about deleting data.

Plugins¶

Users cannot add 3^rd party plugins to Dashboard Designer Add On. More plugins are coming in future releases. Please see the Visualizations and Plugins topic in this Help for more information on capabilities.

User Roles¶

Admin users can define roles, access, view, and edit permissions for their organizations' users, user groups, and teams. Access these functions by opening the Settings app on the Launchpad.

This briefly describes the user roles in Dashboard Designer Ad On:

• Admin: has full access to all dashboard and tenant settings functionality
• Creator: can create and edit dashboards
• Viewer: can view dashboards

Usage Quotas¶

Dashboard Designer subscriptions include a quota on the number of dashboards created. For more information, refer to Technical Limitations.