Getting Started with Dashboard

A collection of small examples for how to use FlowFuse Dashboard (Node-RED Dashboard 2.0). Each example is rendered to a standalone page on Dashboard, which can be navigated to via the side menu.

Screenshot of the Node-RED flow used to generate the dashboard

Setup

In order to show the logged in user, you should enable the "FlowFuse User Authentication" setting on your Instance.

Examples

The examples included are as follows:

Data Visualisation

Screenshot of the Data Visualisation example

The example demonstrates how to use the chart widget and gauge widget to render data. In this simple flow, a slider is connected to the respective elements to show how interactive and live data can be displayed.

Data Entry Form

Screenshot of the Data Entry Form example The examples renders a form with text, number and switch data types. Upon submission, the form data is appended to a table.

The table has had its columns manually defined such that it renders the "Remaining Stock" column as a progress bar, and the "Available" column as a tick/cross.

User Tracking & Audit Log

Screenshot of the User Tracking & Audit Log example This example demonstrates how you can track which user is interacting with a Dashboard, utilizing the FlowFuse User Addon.

The flow uses Dashboard's event node, which emits when user's view or leave pages in your Dashboard.

Setup

In order to show the logged in user, you should enable the "FlowFuse User Authentication" setting on your Instance:

This will add a msg._client.user object to the global context, which can be accessed by your Dashboard. You will need to restart your Node-RED instance for this to take effect.