Understanding Widget Context

Note:

When using the web client, the data displayed in the widgets depends on the "context". For more details, please refer to Section Understanding the Scenario Service Context.

The context is defined by the:

User permissions. For more details, please refer to Chapter Setting Permissions.
View or dashboard displayed. For more details, please refer to Section Understanding the Central Area.
Scenario selected, either via the:
- Scenario Selector. For more details, please refer to Section Understanding the Scenario Selector.
- Scenario List widget. For more details, please refer to Section Using the Scenario List Widget.
Users can access different workspaces and the scenarios they contain from the:
- Workspace Selector. For more details, please refer to Section Understanding the Sidenav Workspace Selector.
- Workspaces view. For more details, please refer to Section Understanding the Workspaces View.
- Workspace List widget. For more details, please refer to Section Using the Workspace List Widget.
Also, different filters can impact what is displayed in the widgets, such as the:
- Filter Bar available on custom views and dashboards using the option Configure Dashboard. For more details, please refer to Section Understanding the Custom Views and Dashboards.
- Filters upper tab available in several widget configurators as well the widget settings themselves. For more details, please refer to Chapter Using the Default Widgets.
- Filter widget, which can apply to all views or dashboards or only to the one it is placed on. For more details, please refer to Section Using the Filter Widget.
- Selecting rows in a Data Grid. For more details, please refer to Sections Using the Data Grid Widget and Using the Data Explorer Widget.