Working with Dashboards

Dashboards are a collection of widgets that display the data provided by your data sources in a meaningful way. You can access your own dashboards and dashboards other users shared with you.
Reference: For a video presentation of the functions available in the Dashboards tab, go to Ricoh How-to Videos.
    Important:

  • The options you see in the Dashboards tab and the actions that you can perform depend on your user role. Roles can restrict access to certain user interface areas or limit the available actions.

    For more information, see Users and Roles.

  • All the time-related data from the Dashboards tab is displayed in the printer time zone set in RICOH Supervisor Data Collector.

  • The time when the data in a dashboard was last updated is displayed next to the dashboard name in the time zone of the web browser that accesses RICOH Supervisor.

  • All the time-related data from the Dashboards tab is displayed in the printer time zone set in RICOH Supervisor Data Collector or in the time zone of the user's browser.

In this section:

  1. Creating and Managing Dashboards
    Dashboards provide various functions for displaying and interacting with collected data. You can create, view, and manage dashboards from the Dashboards tab.
  2. Creating and Managing Widgets
    Each widget is a dynamic visualization of data. You specify the data that you want to include in the widget and you select the type of visualization or the chart type.
  3. Managing the Widgets in the Widget Library
    You can edit or delete the custom widgets that you created from the Widget library panel.
  4. Using the Default Dashboards and Filters
    The default dashboards contain several predefined widgets, which interpret and display the data provided by your data collectors and software connectors. You can access the default dashboards from the Dashboards tab after you start gathering data.
  5. Using the Default Widgets
    RICOH Supervisor provides several default widgets so that you can easily create dashboards with meaningful data.
  6. Making Selections in a Widget
    You can click a specific portion of a widget to select it. The dashboard is filtered according to the selected data and a filter is automatically added to the Filters panel.
  7. Drilling down in a Widget
    You can drill down into data in most widgets to get an in-depth view of a selected value.
  8. Downloading Data and Creating Reports
    Downloading the content of dashboards and widgets is useful when you want to share your data or create reports and presentations.
  9. Working with Filters
    Filters affect the data that is displayed in the dashboard and let you focus on specific areas.
  10. Using Formulas
    Formulas are custom calculations performed on one or more data fields. They provide an important way to analyze results.
  11. Data Fields
    Fields represent the data from RICOH Supervisor Data Collector, RICOH API for Fiery and RICOH ProcessDirector.
Parent topic: RICOH Supervisor™