Wiring gauges to an Event Viewer for display on mobile devices

Create a gauge and configure a wire to launch a mobile event list with a predefined filter when you click the gauge. Configure the gauge for display on mobile devices.

Before you begin

Depending on the requirements that you have of the page, perform some or all of the tasks described in Developing dashboards for event visualization.

Procedure

  1. Create the page, assign it to a location in the navigation and specify the roles that users need to view the page.
  2. Add the Gauges widget and the Event Viewer to the page.
  3. In the Gauges widget, click Edit options Edit options button > Edit.
  4. Edit the portlet preferences as follows:
    • Select the HTML for mobile devices checkbox.
    • Specify the metrics that you want to be applied to the gauges.
    • Select Send Events (using wires) from the Click action menu.
    • Select URL from the Mobile device touch action menu.
    • For the Mobile device URL enter:
      <protocol>://server.domain:portcontext-root/webtop/m/eventviewer?filtername=filtername&filtertype=filtertype
  5. Click Add gauge > OK.
  6. Save the page.
  7. Click Edit options > Show Wires.
  8. Click New Wire and complete the following steps:
    • Under available source events select Gauges > NodeClickedOn.
    • Use the newly created page as the target for the new wire.
    • Select Show Gauge Events as the transformation.
  9. Save the page.
  10. Click the gauge that you defined in step 5. The Event Viewer is displayed with the filter defined by the gauge.
  11. Re-edit the widget preferences for the Gauges page that you created in step 5. Then, copy the URL and send it to a mobile device by email or SMS, or scan the QR code using a mobile device.
    The Gauges page is displayed on the display of the mobile device.
  12. Tap the gauge that you defined in step 5.
    The mobile event list is displayed with the filter defined by the gauge.