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 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
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…
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.
See also
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Set Up a Wallboard — Set up your information radiator: A wallboard
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Create, Edit, Clone, Delete and Export your Dashboard — Easily create and edit your dashboard layout, add gadgets, set access restrictions or share it
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What is a Gadget? — Gadgets are the small components in a dashboard that visually transmit the data with graphs, tables, images, text, etc.
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What is a Dashboard? — A dashboard is a visualization tool that helps your team to track their work: Monitor environments, visualize sales, detect incidents, analyze performance, track projects and so on.
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Dashboard Data Perspectives: Dynamic Filter — Customize how you view dashboards using dynamic filtering.
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Dashboard Demos: Live Examples for ITSM, DevOps, Agile, Project Tracking — Find live examples of different dashboards to discover what you can do with Dashboard Hub
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How to level up your IT Service Management — Let users of your Customer Portal in your Jira Service Management (JSM) instance access live dashboards, and report JSM metrics with multi-project gadgets.
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How to Enhance your Data Visualization — Dashboard Hub enhances your data visualization with Pre-defined templates, 70+ ready-to-go gadgets and powerful integrations.
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How to Build your Central Data Hub — Centralize your data by turning Jira and Confluence into the Central Data Hub of your organization
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Dashboard Gadgets: KPIs and Metrics — Here, we classify gadgets by dashboards, but you can combine any of them in a single dashboard as you wish!