Creating Customizable Dashboard Canvases

The RUCKUS DSE is an AI assistant that can create canvases for data visualization to streamline data presentation and enhance user experience. You can use the RUCKUS DSE to generate specific data widgets (such as pie charts, bar graphs, line graphs, and tables) and integrate them into customizable canvases.

The Customizable Dashboard Canvas lets you create and share multiple canvases within your tenant account. You can design dashboards that highlight key data and serve as personalized landing pages. This feature enhances data accessibility and collaboration, allowing you to quickly understand the status of your devices. It also enables you to integrate widgets across canvases, export them as dashboards, and switch between dashboards based on your needs.

  1. On the RUCKUS One web interface, click the icon in the UI header.
    The welcome message appears in an interactive pop-up window.

    Invoking the RUCKUS DSE

  2. Click the icon to invoke the Expand My Canvas function.
    The window refreshes displaying the RUCKUS DSE chatbox on the left side (allowing you to continue your interactive chat) and your canvas on the right side (allowing you to see and interact with your widgets and other canvas options).
  3. Choose a default suggestion or type your request in the chatbox.

    RUCKUS DSE and Dashboard Canvas

  4. Select New Canvas from the drop-down menu to create a new dashboard canvas.
    Alternatively, you can select an existing canvas from the drop-down to edit it.

    Creating a New Dashboard Canvas

  5. Type your request in the RUCKUS DSE chatbox. In this example, the RUCKUS DSE is asked to show ICX switch port traffic for the last 24 hours. It analyzes the network and creates a chart with incoming (Traffic In) and outgoing (Traffic Out) network traffic.
    In this example, the interface allows you to do the following:
    • Pause your cursor over the chart widget in the chatbox to view the traffic details.
    • Drag the widget into the Dashboard Canvas page for continued use.

    Charts Created by the RUCKUS DSE

    The icons appear dynamically on the widget as you move the cursor over the widget.
  6. You can make the canvas public or private. It is private by default. Select Private mode to hide the canvas from public access. The canvas will only be visible to the owner and the icon is displayed beside the canvas name. Select Public mode to publish the canvas to all administrators in the tenant; the icon is displayed beside the canvas name.
    Alternatively, you can change the canvas mode by selecting Manage My Canvas and clicking the icon in the Manage My Canvases sidebar to edit the canvas visibility setting.

    If a canvas is used as a dashboard landing page by the owner or by other users in the tenant, the icon is displayed beside the canvas name. For more information, refer to Using a Canvas as Your Dashboard Landing Page.

    Managing a Canvas

  7. Click Preview to review the Dashboard Canvas page you created.
  8. Click Save to save the widgets to the Dashboard Canvas page.

    As you add and save additional widgets to your Dashboard Canvas, they will be arranged in rows. The Dashboard Canvas interface allows you to do the following with saved widgets:

    • Pause your cursor over widget charts and graphs to view real-time detailed information.
    • Edit the widget by clicking the icon on the widget to provide a meaningful name in Widget Title, or time in Time Range. You can select a time range from the drop-down menu options and also reset to the default time range.
    • Click icon to delete the widget.
    • Pause your cursor over a widget chart and increase or decrease the size of the widget using the Small to Large slider (as shown in the preceding Figure).

  9. Click the icon on the RUCKUS DSE chatbox to start a new conversation with RUCKUS DSE to create new widgets and canvases.

    Starting a New Conversation with the RUCKUS DSE

  10. (Optional) Click the icon to view the conversation history with RUCKUS DSE. Here, you can edit conversation titles and manually delete conversations.

    Viewing Conversation History with the RUCKUS DSE

    Note: Each administrator can retain up to 50 conversations (chats) in the history, with messages in each conversation retained for a maximum of 30 days. Once all messages in a conversation expire, the conversation will be automatically deleted from the conversation history. Deleted conversations do not impact saved widgets.
  11. (Optional) Click the or icons in the RUCKUS DSE chatbox to express whether you find the AI response useful or not.