Adding a Dashboard

1. Access the analytics dashboard application using the following URL: https://<HOST_NAME>:<PORT>/portal/dashboards. (E .g. https://localhost:9443/portal/dashboards). You are presented with a login screen like below. 
   

2. Log in to the dashboard using Carbon login credentials. You are presented with a list of dashboards you’ve already created as shown below.

   

3. Click the  following CREATE DASHBOARD button in the top navigational bar to create a new dashboard.

   

4. Enter a Title and a Description for the new dashboard as shown below, and click Next.

   

5. Select a layout to place its components as shown below.

   

6. Click Select. You view a layout editor with the chosen layout blocks marked using dashed lines as shown below. Now the dashboard is persisted to the disk.

   

7. Click the following icon in the top menu. 

8. Click Dashboards to view the new dashboard added to the list of all available dashboards as shown below.

   You can edit, view or delete the dashboards using the corresponding options provided.

   

Setting permissions of a dashboard

Follow the steps below to set permissions of a dashboard.

1. Log in to the analytics dashboard using Carbon login credentials, if you are not already logged in. 
2. Click Settings of the corresponding dashboard in which you want to set permissions.

3. Enter the user roles to which you would like to grant respective permissions to view and edit for Permissions as shown below.

   By default, the user role Internal/everyone is set for Editors.

   

Viewing the preview of a dashboard

Follow the steps below to view the preview of a dashboard.

1. Log in to the analytics dashboard using Carbon login credentials, if you are not already logged in. 
2. Click View of the corresponding dashboard in which you want to view.
3. You view the preview of the selected dashboard with all its pages in different tabs as shown below.
   

Exporting a dashboard

Follow the steps below to export a dashboard configuration as a JSON file.

1. Log in to the analytics dashboard using Carbon login credentials, if you are not already logged in.
2. Click Design of the corresponding dashboard which you want to export.
3. Click the following button in the top menu bar.
   
4. You view the dashboard configuration exported to JSON format in a new tab of your web browser as shown below.