If your configuration assigns values to the Geo Location object tag, the geo widget shows where your objects are located on a world map. The geo widget is similar to the Geographical tab on the Inventory page.
How the Geo Widget and Configuration Options Work
You can move the map and zoom in or out by using the controls on the map. The icons at each location show the health of each object that has the Geo Location tag value. You can add the geo widget to one or more custom dashboards and configure it to display data that is important to different dashboard users. The data that appears in the widget is based on the configured options for each widget instance.
You edit a Geo widget after you add it to a dashboard. The changes you make to the options help create a custom widget to meet the needs of the dashboard users.
Where You Find the Geo Widget
The widget might be included on any of your custom dashboards. From the left menu, click to see your configured dashboards.
To customize the data that appears in the dashboard widget, from the left menu, click . To create your dashboard, from the left menu, click . From the Dashboards panel, click Create. To edit your dashboard, from the left menu, click . From the Dashboards panel, select the dashboard you want to edit and select . Toggle between the Views and Widgets option to view and add a widget or view to the dashboard. The widgets list panel displays a list of all the predefined widgets. Drag a widget to the dashboard workspace in the upper panel.
Geo Widget Toolbar Options
| Option | Description |
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| Zoom in | Zooms in on the map. |
| Zoom out | Zooms out on the map. |
Geo Widget Configuration Options
The Configuration section provides general configuration options for the widget.
The configuration options are grouped into one or more sections. You can select the objects on which you want to base the widget data and refine the objects in the following sections. Each section filters the objects further and pushes the filtered objects to the next section. The widget data is based on the objects that are the output of the last section.
The Output Filter section provides options to restrict the widget data based on the selected filter criteria.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Title | Enter a custom title that identifies this widget from other instances that are based on the same widget template. |
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| Refresh Content | Enable or disable the automatic refreshing of the data in this widget. If not enabled, the widget is updated only when the dashboard is opened or when you click the Refresh button on the widget in the dashboard. |
| Refresh Interval | If you enable the Refresh Content option, specify how often to refresh the data in this widget. |
| Self Provider |
Indicates whether the objects for which data appears in the widget are defined in the widget or provided by another widget.
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| Output Filter | |
| Basic |
Pick tags to refine the widget data. The widget data is based on the objects that have the picked tags applied. If you pick more than one value for the same tag, the widget includes objects that have any of the tags applied. If you pick more than one value for different tags, the widget includes only the objects that have all the tags applied. |
| Advanced |
Refine the widget data further based on the filter criteria for object types. The widget data is based on the objects for the filtered object types. If the objects have a tag filter applied in the Basic subsection, you define filter criteria for the object types of the objects with tag filter applied. If the objects with tag filter applied do not belong to any of the object types in this filter criteria, the widget skips this filter and includes all the objects with tag filter applied.
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