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Overview
We already learnt in What is a Gadget? that gadgets are the main components of a dashboard. They are in charge of displaying the gadgets (see What is a Gadget?What is a Gadget?), which are basically the elements that display the information you need, in the format you want. These gadgets have to be configured with a datasource (see Add and Configure a DatasourceAdd and Configure a Datasource and Learn about DatasourcesLearn about Datasources), which is the element that connects the tool you extract the information from (or where the data is).
If a gadget is not configured (as it is when you first add one):
information using the best metaphor to visualize it.
The common elements to all gadgets are:
Name. Where you describe what it is about, so that everyone can understand it with a quick glance. Try to be precise and concise, and not too verbose. Sometimes it’s useful to indicate the datasource, for example, for those cases where you connect to different Jira instances.
Datasource. This is the source of truth, the origin of the data. Review Learn about Datasources if you haven’t done it yet.
Configuration
First of all, you need to enter in edition mode, for doing so, click on the Edit button in the right top navigation bar.
Click on the ⚙ to open the configuration menu, or click on the Config button.
Name your gadget.
Select a datasource, default for the current instance, or any other (see Add and Configure a Datasource
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Add and Configure a Datasource).
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Indicate if you want to use the current gadget configuration for compatible gadgets still without configuration.
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Now, depending on the gadget datasource, you’ll see different configuration options. Some of the require you to indicate a project, a board, a sprint, a queue, a time period…
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The last option before clicking on Save, is common to all gadgets “Use this setting to configure empty compatible gadgets”. If you enable this toggle, all the gadgets with a compatible configuration will be configured equally, so you spend less time doing it
Finally, click Save.
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