The main components of a dashboard are 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):
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
Indicate if you want to use the current gadget configuration for compatible gadgets still without configuration.
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!