Tutorial: Creating a laptops by location dashboard chart

Gain visibility of the assets, where they're located, and the status of the assets.  

Before you begin

You can create a dashboard container for the asset dashboard charts or tables that you create. 

You create a search on the Assets page and save it so that you use the search to retrieve the data that you want to see in your chart. In this scenario, you choose the following search criteria for your search:

• Manufacturer = Is not empty. Alternatively, you can list the manufacturers such as Manufacturer = Dell Apple, and so on.  
• Asset Type = Laptop

You save the search as a public search and you select the roles of the users who are allowed to view the chart. In this scenario, you select All.

Procedure

1. Click Add Widget.
2. Select Bar Chart as the type of chart.
3. Enter the name of the chart.
4. In the Visible to list, you accept the default visible to all.
5. From the Widget Width list, select Regular or Wide.
6. Select Allow table view so that you can switch the chart to table view. 
7. Ensure that Assets is selected as the object.
8. From the Saved search list select your report. (Alternatively, you can select an entity or all entities for the object.)
9. Enter the name of the label for the y-axis such as Laptops.
10. Select the type of calculation such as Total as you want to know the total number of laptops in each location.
11. Enter the name of the label for the x-axis such as Location or Laptop Locations.
12. Select the name of the field that you want to use as the data source such as Location.
13. Choose the selection type, the number of items that you want to be shown in the chart, and the display order.
14. Click SAVE.