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Directly after creation, the user is presented with a fresh dashboard, an empty widget and a configuration panel for it.
The panel is divided into two sections, 'General Properties', which is shared by all widgets, and 'Widget Configuration' which contains the configurable parameters for this widget type, which is currently chosen in 'General Properties' section. To switch between the sections, just click on their titles. The panel is completely draggable, so feel free to position it wherever is more convenient for the task at handeditor panel displays on the right, which combines all the properties of the dashboard itself, as well as those of all the widgets, and visual themes.
The properties listed at the top are common for all widgets, and widget-specific configuration starts soon after that.
We will proceed to configure a Pie Chart widget now.
Pressing Apply Changing any value will save the widget and show it in its designated spot. The widgets themselves can be moved around too, and they mind the other widgets already in place, ensuring all are visible at any given time. Changing different settings, widget types, and applying the changes, makes them visible straight away, without closing the configurator. That allows to pick and choose until the tool most suitable for the task at hand is found.
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NOTE: When editing an existing Dashboard, pressing Apply on changing properties in the widget configurator will not actually perform a save on the dashboard itself. To save a dashboard, the user is expected to press Save at the bottom of the page. This differs from the handling on Search page, where all the widgets and their dashboard are saved automatically on every Apply (speaking broader, every change, so for example moving widgets around will cause a dashboard save too). The same auto-save mechanism is used when the edited widget is the first one in a newly created dashboard. In this case applying the widget saves it, save the dashboard and reload the page.
And that's how this Pie Chart widget looks after configuration.
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