Using an existing dashboard widget
You can use an existing dashboard widget by clicking the Import widget icon in WIDGETS
Pane and you will get the Import Widget
window.
The Import widget window opens as follows.
COMPUTER
Using this option, you can browse the widget file from the local machine. Here, you can import widgets from SYDX/SYDW formatted files. When selecting a file, you can get a list of available widgets displayed as in the following.
Select the required widgets to import into your dashboard and click Import
.
Now the respective widget(s) will be imported into the WIDGETS container as follows.
SERVER
You can import widgets from the Dashboard Server using the following ways. To display the widgets that are present in the server, you should sign in the Dashboard Server account in the Dashboard Designer.
Select the SERVER
tab. You will get a list of available Widgets that are present in the Dashboard Server. Choose the widgets and click Import
.
While importing widget, if bounded data source already existed in the data source container, it will show below information message.
If click yes it will reuse the data source which exists in the data source container. otherwise, it will import another one data source.
Now the respective widget(s) will be imported into the WIDGETS container as in the following.