Using the Default Dashboards and Filters

Capacity Planning (Impressions) dashboard

Provides information for capacity planning and load balancing by tracking the annual, monthly, and daily volume, the printer performance, and the peak production days and hours based on the number of printed impressions.

For more information, see Capacity Planning (Impressions) Dashboard.

Ink Consumption (Inkjet printers only) dashboard

Provides information for ink consumption by tracking the monthly and daily ink usage and the ink consumption per printer and per job.

For more information, see Ink Consumption (Inkjet printers only) Dashboard .

Job Insights dashboard

Displays job information, including the number of jobs printed, the number of pages printed, the average job size, and the average job duration. It also provides information about printer errors and error duration to help you find the jobs that caused the most errors.

For more information, see Job Insights Dashboard.

Printer Utilization dashboard

Helps you understand how individual printers are utilized based on printer up time, down time, and idle time, the number of printed impressions per hour, the number of printed impressions relative to up time, and printer error durations and error types.

For more information, see Printer Utilization Dashboard.

RICOH ProcessDirector dashboard

Displays information collected from RICOH ProcessDirector.

For more information, see RICOH ProcessDirector Default Dashboard.

• To display additional details, hover over the data in the widgets.
• To select data in a widget and filter the dashboard according to the selected data, click an item in the widget.

  In chart widgets, you can drag the cursor to draw the area that you want to select, then release the mouse button and click Select in the menu.

  For more information, see Making Selections in a Widget.

• To drill down into data and get an in-depth view of a selected value, right-click an item in the widget and select a drilling option.

  For more information, see Drilling down in a Widget.

• To analyze trends in widget data, click , the Analyze It button, select Trend, and enable the Show Trend option.

  This function is only available for area charts, bar charts, column charts, line charts, and polar charts.

  For more information, see Analyzing Trends in Widget Data.

• To download widget data, click , the Options button, in the corner of the widget, then select Download and a file format.

  For more information, see Downloading Widget Data.

• To display or hide the Filters panel, click , the Toggle filters button, on the dashboard heading.
• To edit a filter, use one of these methods:
  • Click , the Edit Filter button, next to the filter name to open the Edit Filter dialog box and modify the filter settings.
  • Expand the filter and select or clear the check box next to the values that you want to include or exclude.
• To enable or disable a filter, turn the switch next to the filter on or off.

  Click the switch to turn it on and off. The switch is on when the circle is positioned to the right and the background is green. The switch is off when the circle is to the left and the background is gray.

• To save the current state of the filters and their settings, click , the Options button, at the top of the Filters panel and select Set as My Default Filters.

  To restore the saved filters, click , the Restore my default filters button.

• To change the color palette, click , the Change dashboard color palette button, on the dashboard heading and select one of the available color palettes.

  For more information, see Changing the Dashboard Color Palette.

• To move a widget to a different position, click the widget heading and hold the mouse button, then drag the widget to the new location.

  If you drag a widget on top of another widget, the available space is split between the two widgets.

• To resize a widget, drag its edges right, left, up, or down.
• To resize the widgets inside a row so they occupy an equal amount of space, click , the Options button, in the corner of a widget and select Distribute widgets evenly in this row.
• To remove a widget from the dashboard, click , the Options button, in the corner of the widget and select Delete.

All the changes are applied to a local copy of the default dashboards and do not affect the original versions.