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After entering a title and confirming, a new (empty) dashboard panel will be opened and it will be added to the dashboards menu.
Adding Frames
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To add a new Spatial Display frame to a dashboard, navigate to a Spatial Display and use the "Add to Dashboard" button found in the toolbar. Clicking this button will add a copy of the spatial display as a frame to the current open user-defined dashboard. If several user-defined dashboards are open, you will be prompted to choose a dashboard to which it will be added. If no user-defined dashboards are open, you will be asked to open a dashboard first. New frames can only be added to user-defined dashboards.
After adding a frame to a dashboard, the dashboard to which it was added will be automatically shown.
While it is possible to later modify the contents of the frame, for example, to select a different grid plot or change the accumulation, it is advisable to set these as you want them to be before adding a copy of the spatial display to the dashboard.
Modifying Frame Contents
Spatial Display frames will only show the map and plot. To gain access to the plot tree, accumulation slider and legend, a frame must be maximized. This can be done by clicking the maximize button on the frame, or double-clicking its title.
By maximizing a frame, its plot selection and accumulation can be changed. When restoring the frame to its original size (by clicking the restore button or double-clicking its title), the left panel will be hidden again.
Arranging the Frames
Dashboard frames can be resized as by dragging its border as you usually would. The dashboard menu also offers three options to aid in arranging the dashboard frames:
Arrange Frames Horizontally
This option will arrange all frames from left to right, giving each an equal amount of horizontal space. The frames will be kept in the same "left-to-right" order they are currently in.
Arrange Frames Vertically
This option will arrange all frames from top to bottom, giving each an equal amount of vertical space. The frames will be kept in the same "top-to-bottom" order they are currently in.
Arrange Frames Automatically
This option will move an scale the current desktop window to ensure all frames fit in it exactly, remove as much overlap between frames as possible, and finally remove as much empty space as possible. While doing so, it will always prefer the top frame to be made larger and the bottom frame to be made smaller. Examples for when this options will come in handy are:
- If you've resized the FEWS application / dashboard panel, several frames may have become (partially) invisible. The "Arrange Frames Automatically" would result in all frames being visible again.
- If you wish to arrange the frames in a different pattern than left to right or top to bottom.
- If you wish to resize one of your frames but doing so makes it overlap with the frame(s) next to it.
For example, the situation before using the "Arrange Frames Automatically" option is shown on the left while the result is shown on the right in the screenshots below:
Frame Titles
Deleting a dashboard
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Opening a Dashboard Display
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Accessing the
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frame toolbars
Synchronizing Frames
Map Extent Synchronization
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