[DevExpress Support Team: CLONED FROM Q453663: Gauge Dashboard Item - Add more gauges types and designs ]
The web dashboard gauges are not readable from afar.
Web Dashboard - Gauges are not readable from afar
created 3 years ago
(modified 3 years ago)
Answers approved by DevExpress Support
Hi Lisa,
Thank you for your reply. I passed your feedback to our team for further consideration and we will take it into account during further development.
While there is no built-in functionality to customize a gauge's appearance, you can accomplish this task by accessing the inner dxCircularGauge widget at runtime. Please refer to the following help topic where we described this concept: Access to Underlying Widgets in ASP.NET Web Forms.
For instance, you can change the value indicator's width using the valueIndicator.width property and change its color using the color property. You can also customize a gauge's coloring: Custom Layout.
Finally, the Web Dashboard allows you to use any third-party JavaScript widgets in your dashboard using custom dashboard items: Create a Custom Item for the Web Dashboard. Thus, if our gauges do not meet your requirements, you can embed any other JavaScript gauges in the dashboard and use them instead.
Feel free to contact us if you need further clarification. I will be happy to follow up.
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LB
3 years ago
After much work I have gotten the sample to work in a normal web application. I can control a type ‘gaugeitem’. However, the code is for all gauges, there is no way by dashboard designer to configure an individual gauge.
I suppose this could lead to more links on how to add custom buttons to the dashboard itself to make them do things, and then how to store things with the dashboard, but that’s an awful lot of coding to expose things that are seemingly part of the (standard dev express) widget to begin with….? This should be part of the designer.
**Lisa Bencic –Sr. Developer
Crossroads RMC
Hello Lisa,
Thank you for your suggestion.
The thing is that the Dashboard component is a control that can be customized. The Dashboard designer is not a complete tool for end-users. It can be easily developed and you can get the tool you want. Most of our customers implement great things for their end-users with our Dashboard component.
That is why we implemented the Custom Item functionality. It allows you to add your custom JavaScript-based items.
If you need to get more functionality from each item including custom items, you can add custom properties there. These properties can save their settings within the dashboard XML definition. So, you can implement them according to your usage scenarios. Please refer to this page for more details - Create Custom Properties.
I hope this information will be helpful.
Hi Lisa,
Could you please describe your use case and the issue you are experiencing with Web Dashboard gauges in greater detail? We will check if there is a solution we can offer you.
They are not visible on the shop floor / more than 10 feet away even on a big screen for the following reasons:
The Pin line is too thin and seems no way to enhance this.
The contrast is low
The windows gauges are much more functional. Even with a bigger pin, the client has seen the pretty windows gauges and is wondering why we don't have the color ones - with the Gauge and then Red/Yellow/Green inlay - exactly the pictures shown on the other thread.