Introduction

The ABB Ability™ History View tool enables creation of interactive user interfaces and dashboards. This series of pages provides instructions on how to construct a dashboard, what kind of features the dashboard editor provides, as well as presents principles for a good dashboard design.

Content

UI & UX Design

• On this page, we present some user interface and user experience design considerations for your dashboards.

Dashboard Editor

• On this page, we explain how to use the dashboard editor.

Widgets

• On this page, we present the most common widgets you can use on your dashboards.

Dashboard Features

• On this page, we present features you can utilize to make your dashboard interactive.

Tutorials

Dashboard step-by-step tutorial

• In this tutorial we show step-by-step how to construct dashboards using our widgets and dashboard tools.

Trend step-by-step tutorial

• In this tutorial we show how to create a simple trend with just a few steps.

Creating a custom edit dialog tutorial

• In this tutorial we will show how you can create a dashboard to function as a custom edit dialog, instead of using the standard property editor for editing and creating class instances.

Dashboard Commit Actions tutorial

• In this tutorial we will show you how dashboard Commit Actions allow you to create or update class instances or update current values for variables.

Formatted Datalist configuration options

• In this section we will go over the most important configuration option for the Formatted Datalist.

Context passing between dashboards

• This tutorial will give a simple example of how context may be passed between main and sub-dashboards.

Dashboard Scripting in View

• This tutorial shows how to use scripting in view Dashboards.