Widget Operations

Widgets in an Analytics Dashboard serve several important purposes like graphical representation of data, making it easier for you to understand complex information at a glance. Visualizations like charts, graphs, and gauges can quickly convey trends, patterns in the data.

What are the Different Types of Widgets in Analytics Dashboard?

There are three different types of widgets that can be used in BizTalk360 Analytics dashboards. They are:

• Default/Basic Widgets
• Static Widgets
• Custom Widgets - BizTalk and Azure 

Adding new widget to the Analytics Dashboard

The Analytics Dashboard contains lot of widgets that provide you detailed information of the performance of your BizTalk environment.

For example, the BizTalk Host Performance widget will help you to get the information of the top performing hosts in the BizTalk environment. The BizTalk messaging performance gives you the picture of the message count and average execution time of the total messages transferred during the configured datetime range.

Date Range – Select the date range for chart. The options are Last 24 hrs, Last 7 days, Last 30 days.

• Last 24 Hrs – Displays the data from last 24 hours.
• Last 7 days – Displays the data from last 7 days.
• Last 30 days – Displays the data from last 30 days.

Based on the selected date range, the performance data gets collected from the BizTalk servers.

You can add a widget to both the default Home (Analytics) Dashboard and a custom (Analytics) Dashboard in BizTalk360.

Follow the steps as shown below to add a new widget to the dashboard. To understand the process better, we will show the example of adding the 'BizTalk server performance' static widgets into the Analytics Home Dashboard.

1. Navigate to Analytics Dashboard >> Add Widget.
2. The Add widget blade will contain the list of Static Widgets that can be added to the dashboard.
3. Expand the required section from which widget need to be added.
4. Click the '+' icon to add the widget to the dashboard. If the widget was successfully added to the dashboard, you will notice a confirmation message as 'Widget Added to dashboard successfully'.

What are the Editing options in Analytics Widgets?

You can customize static widgets by giving them names, setting refresh intervals at the widget level, and resizing them according to your preferences. For example, if you want a widget named "BizTalk 2020" to auto-refresh every 5 minutes to get the latest data, you can also set its size to be 8x4. Here are the simple steps to do this.

• Editing the widget title
• Setting up the widget refresh interval
• Re-sizing the widget

Editing the Widget Title

1. On the Analytics dashboard, click the 'Customize' button. You will notice that all the widgets will be in a greyed-out state.
2. Click on the widget title for which you want to change the title.
3. Enter the new title for the widget in the space provided.
4. Click the tick mark to save the new widget title.
5. Click 'Save' on the top right corner of the screen to save the dashboard customization.

Configure the widget refresh interval

By default, all widgets have a refresh interval count of 60 seconds. You will notice the refresh timer when you hover over the widgets on the dashboard. After every refresh cycle, the values shown in the widget will be refreshed. Follow the steps as shown below to configure the refresh interval for a particular widget. We will consider the 'Suspended service instances of message box queries' widget as an example to understand the functionality better. The process will remain the same for the remaining widgets in the BizTalk360 dashboard.

1. On the Analytics dashboard, click the 'Customize' button. You will notice that all the widgets will be in a greyed-out state.
2. Click the 'Refresh' icon at the bottom of the widget. 
3. You will notice the Configure Interval pop-in screen with the space to adjust the refresh interval. Enter the new refresh interval value in the space provided. Alternatively, you can use the up/down arrow marks to select a refresh interval value.
4. Click 'Save' to save the new refresh interval configuration.

Resizing the widget

In BizTalk360, when a widget is added to the dashboard, it gets added at the best size where all the information will be visible to the user. However, we have provided functionality to customize the size of the widgets according to your needs. Say, the widget for the Monitoring service, when it loads on the default dashboard, it is by default in the 4x4 size. But you can resize it to be 2x2 to occupy less space in the dashboard grid and add more widgets. 

Follow the steps as shown below to edit the widget name:

1. On the Analytics dashboard, click the 'Customize' button. You will notice that all the widgets will be in a greyed-out state.
2. Click on the widget that you want to resize. At the bottom right of the widget click the gear icon
3. You will notice the options to customize the widget with different sizes. Click the size to which you want to resize the widget.
4. Click 'Save' in the top right corner of the screen to save the dashboard customization.
5. The widget will be resized to the chosen size.

Customize Legends

• Click on the customize button, and in the added widget there is a setting icon in right corner.
• click on the setting icon and there is an option to modify the names legends.
• user can change the labels used for legends to make them more user-friendly.
• Reset - If the user wants to revert to the original names, they can use the reset option to restore the default labels.

Deleting a widget

In this article, we will take a look at the steps to remove a widget from an Analytics Dashboard. As mentioned in other articles, a widget can be added to the Analytics Home dashboard and Custom dashboards. A widget can be removed from the dashboard in two different ways.

• By clicking the 'Add Widget' button, and deselecting an already added widget.
• Right-clicking on the dashboard area and clicking Customize. This will change the dashboard into a customizable area. Select the widget to be deleted and click the gear icon on the widget and then hit 'Remove widget'.

Deselecting an already added Widget through the Add Widget section.

Follow the steps as shown below to remove a widget from the dashboard. To understand the process better, assume that all the static widgets under the 'Suspended Instances (Group)' are added to the Analytics Home Dashboard. We will see how to remove these widgets from the dashboard.

1. On the dashboard screen, click 'Add Widget'.
2. You will notice the Add Widget blade on the right-hand side of the screen. The Add widget blade will contain the list of Static Widgets that can be added to the dashboard
3. In this section, we will remove the 'Suspended Instances (Group)' widgets from the dashboard, expand the 'Suspended Instances (Group)' section.
4. You will notice an '-' icon against each widget. Hover over the icon, and you will notice the icon changing to '-'
5. Click the icon to delete the widget from the dashboard.
6. If the widget was successfully removed from the dashboard, you will notice a confirmation message as 'Widget deleted successfully'.

Deleting a Widget from Dashboard Customization Area

In addition to deleting the widget through the Add Widget section, you can also delete a widget when customizing the dashboard. 

• Right-click on the widget, select the gear icon and select 'Remove widget' from the list. The process remains the same for Normal BizTalk360 Users.

Different Widget Sizes Available

The widgets in the Analytics Dashboard are of specific sizes and can be resized. In this section, we will see the different sizes and the supported sizes for the different widgets.

The different widget sizes available in the Analytics Dashboard (with the dimensions) are as follows:

• 2x2
• 4x2
• 4x4
• 6x4
• 8x4

In the below table, all widgets that can be added to the dashboard are listed, their default size (when added to the Analytics dashboard), and the possible sizes into which they can be resized.