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Steps to take to achieve common goals like setting up dashboards or workspaces
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Steps to take to achieve common goals like setting up dashboards or workspaces
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New devices and tags are created via sources. This is to say that you can add a source to a workspace like for example FTP which will then create devices in the workspace. Refer to this page on sources to see how you can add new devices via different connection methods.
Devices are created in the workspace where their source is. After that you can go into any workspace you have access to and click on the + icon next to the devices text in de secondary menu. Now checkbox the desired devices and click the bulk action attach. Please refer to page about attaching devices
Dashboards are always placed in workspaces. All users in the workspace have access to the dashboard. Please refer to page about dashboard creation
Derived values like averages or sums are achieved via . What basically happens is that when a tag receives new data the aggregate runs its computations and pushed the newly created datapoint to a another tag.
Graphs are placed in tiles which in turn are places into dashboards. See page on how to create a graph dashboard tile in some workspace.
There are to parts to achieving this goal. Creating a rule for a tag that will create events in a workspace and after that subscribing a user in a workspace to the alarm notifications.
Create a rule for a tag as shown .
Subscribe a user to notifications in a workspace as shown .
A separate environment for a customer or reseller is nothing more then creating a workspace as shown and then assigning or a user in that workspace for your new customer.
This is achieved using formulas added to a tag. Tag formulas run on every incoming measurement of a tag. See page about setting up formulas for a tag this up.
What a user can or cant do can vary between workspaces of the user. Device what a user can do in the workspace users pages. See page for details about user roles