Refresh data of dashboard components

You can manually refresh the data currently displayed in a dashboard component.

The data is extracted from the cache or recalculated if the refresh rate of the data source has expired. The default refresh rate value is 12 h. You can set the

Refresh rate in the Assign data dialog.

The usage of the manual Refresh option is independent of the Auto Refresh function.

Procedure

1. Open a dashboard in view mode.

2. Click a dashboard component.

3. Click the

Menu icon > Refresh.

The menu is available if the Show menu option is enabled for the component.

The dashboard components are displayed with the refreshed data.

Most dashboard components provide the Auto refresh option. Use this option to activate the automatic data retrieval for a component. The source data is reimported and recalculated automatically based on the refresh rate set. The Auto refresh option is available on the Config tab in the component properties. To display the properties dialog in dashboard edit mode (

) click an inserted component.