Create, Customize, and Share Dashboards and Cards​

00:01

Hey guys, welcome to the first objective of this course.

00:05

In this objective we are going to create, customize and share dashboards and cards.

00:12

Now before we do that,

00:13

let's first understand what is insight.

00:17

Insight is a product within the ACC platform

00:20

that gathers data from all other products on this platform

00:24

and provides analytics and predictive insights to get you up

00:28

to speed with what's going on in your project.

00:30

So basically

00:32

insight delivers unified project-level data, analytics and predictive insights

00:37

to help your team improve project efficiency.

00:42

Now,

00:42

how do we access Insight? As soon as you add a member

00:46

to a project and give them access to the Docs module,

00:50

they are automatically given access to insight as well.

00:54

Once that happens you can go to the product picture on

00:57

the top left and then you can click insight from there.

01:01

Under Insight, your default view is a view called my dashboard.

01:07

This is your one stop shop to look at everything that's happening in your project.

01:12

You can customize this view by clicking on customized on the top right,

01:17

you can also create new dashboards and you can export them.

01:21

So you can share these dashboards with your other team members.

01:26

Let's now jump over to the chrome window and take a look at the inside module.

01:31

Alright, so here I am in this project called specialty hospital,

01:35

I'm currently in Docs.

01:37

So if I click on this product picture on the top left,

01:39

I'll click Insight.

01:41

It now takes me to the insight module

01:44

and my default view here is called my dashboard.

01:48

Under my dashboard I can see the project address,

01:51

I can see weather and I can see a few cards here that are the default cards.

01:57

The default cards include Project RFIs

01:60

Project Submittals, Project Issues, Open RFIs and Submittals and so on.

02:05

Please note that this project also has autodesk build enabled.

02:10

That's the reason I can see RFIs and Submittals.

02:13

From the left navigation, I can look at the design analytics,

02:17

Project Controls,

02:19

I can look at Quality and Safety analytics

02:23

but let's start with customizing my dashboard.

02:26

For that. I'll click on the customise option on the top right.

02:30

I can now go to card library. These are all the cards that are available by default.

02:35

One of the cards I'm a big fan of is issues by the root causes. So if I scroll down here,

02:42

I'm going to select that card,

02:45

which is this one here.

02:48

I'll click on add card.

02:51

This card is now added here.

02:53

I can now easily see all the issues by the root causes.

02:56

Because I'm in the customise mode

02:58

still, I can select this card and I can drag and drop it wherever I want it to be placed.

03:04

I can even drag and drop it above the submittals card if I want.

03:08

But in this case I'm happy with this card here.

03:11

Now this project doesn't have design collaboration enabled.

03:14

So I don't need design packages. I can turn that card off.

03:20

The other card that I'm a big fan of is adding this card here called

03:24

Autodesk Construction Cloud

03:26

and I'm going to use this card

03:28

to display the Federated 3D Model of my design.

03:31

For that, let me first display the Docs module.

03:36

I'm going to open it in the new tab

03:39

and now I'm gonna go and select configure.

03:42

It says, what's the card title? I'm going to call this Federated Model

03:47

Now it's asking me for the Document Management URL

03:50

for that I'll go to the docs tab. I'll go to the Federated Model

03:56

and this is a marvelous Federated Model that I want to display there.

03:59

And all I need to do is copy this address at

04:02

the top and I'm going to paste that address here.

04:06

I'll go save

04:08

And now on my dashboard I can actually see the Federated model of the project as well.

04:12

How cool is this?

04:15

Once I've configured this,

04:17

I can go and select save, this is really important.

04:19

Otherwise it will not save your customization.

04:24

Now, if I want to share this dashboard with the rest of the team members,

04:28

I can simply click on the export option here.

04:31

It lets me to share with which team member. Again,

04:34

I can share it with companiens, roles or individual team members.

04:38

In this case I want to share it with all these companies that are part of my project.

04:43

I'll go export.

04:45

It now sends an email to all these

04:47

team members that said a dashboard exported for them.

04:51

Now going to the dashboards on the top left,

04:54

I can click on this icon here that says create dashboard.

04:58

I can now rename this dashboard,

04:60

I could call it as Hospital Dashboard.

05:03

I can also configure the setting whether I want to share it with

05:06

all project members or selected project members or is it only for me?

05:11

In this case I want to share it with all project members. I'll go done.

05:15

and now I can start adding cards. I'll start with issues.

05:20

Then I'm gonna add this card here.

05:22

Similarly open RFIs And Submitttals, All Issues

05:26

Activity: Added VS Closed and Issue Root Causes.

05:30

I'll go add cards,

05:32

all these cards are added and now I can customize it

05:35

lets in this case I want to move this card here,

05:38

I want to move the Open RFIs and Submittals here and that's

05:43

how I want this dashboard to look like I can now go and select save

05:48

again, I can export it, I can share it and so on.

05:51

And this new dashboard is listed here as Hospital Dashboard

05:56

so at any point of time I can switch between the hospital dashboard and my dashboard,

06:01

how cool is this?

06:04

That's all I have in this objective. I'll see you in the next one, cheers.

Video transcript

00:01

Hey guys, welcome to the first objective of this course.

00:05

In this objective we are going to create, customize and share dashboards and cards.

00:12

Now before we do that,

00:13

let's first understand what is insight.

00:17

Insight is a product within the ACC platform

00:20

that gathers data from all other products on this platform

00:24

and provides analytics and predictive insights to get you up

00:28

to speed with what's going on in your project.

00:30

So basically

00:32

insight delivers unified project-level data, analytics and predictive insights

00:37

to help your team improve project efficiency.

00:42

Now,

00:42

how do we access Insight? As soon as you add a member

00:46

to a project and give them access to the Docs module,

00:50

they are automatically given access to insight as well.

00:54

Once that happens you can go to the product picture on

00:57

the top left and then you can click insight from there.

01:01

Under Insight, your default view is a view called my dashboard.

01:07

This is your one stop shop to look at everything that's happening in your project.

01:12

You can customize this view by clicking on customized on the top right,

01:17

you can also create new dashboards and you can export them.

01:21

So you can share these dashboards with your other team members.

01:26

Let's now jump over to the chrome window and take a look at the inside module.

01:31

Alright, so here I am in this project called specialty hospital,

01:35

I'm currently in Docs.

01:37

So if I click on this product picture on the top left,

01:39

I'll click Insight.

01:41

It now takes me to the insight module

01:44

and my default view here is called my dashboard.

01:48

Under my dashboard I can see the project address,

01:51

I can see weather and I can see a few cards here that are the default cards.

01:57

The default cards include Project RFIs

01:60

Project Submittals, Project Issues, Open RFIs and Submittals and so on.

02:05

Please note that this project also has autodesk build enabled.

02:10

That's the reason I can see RFIs and Submittals.

02:13

From the left navigation, I can look at the design analytics,

02:17

Project Controls,

02:19

I can look at Quality and Safety analytics

02:23

but let's start with customizing my dashboard.

02:26

For that. I'll click on the customise option on the top right.

02:30

I can now go to card library. These are all the cards that are available by default.

02:35

One of the cards I'm a big fan of is issues by the root causes. So if I scroll down here,

02:42

I'm going to select that card,

02:45

which is this one here.

02:48

I'll click on add card.

02:51

This card is now added here.

02:53

I can now easily see all the issues by the root causes.

02:56

Because I'm in the customise mode

02:58

still, I can select this card and I can drag and drop it wherever I want it to be placed.

03:04

I can even drag and drop it above the submittals card if I want.

03:08

But in this case I'm happy with this card here.

03:11

Now this project doesn't have design collaboration enabled.

03:14

So I don't need design packages. I can turn that card off.

03:20

The other card that I'm a big fan of is adding this card here called

03:24

Autodesk Construction Cloud

03:26

and I'm going to use this card

03:28

to display the Federated 3D Model of my design.

03:31

For that, let me first display the Docs module.

03:36

I'm going to open it in the new tab

03:39

and now I'm gonna go and select configure.

03:42

It says, what's the card title? I'm going to call this Federated Model

03:47

Now it's asking me for the Document Management URL

03:50

for that I'll go to the docs tab. I'll go to the Federated Model

03:56

and this is a marvelous Federated Model that I want to display there.

03:59

And all I need to do is copy this address at

04:02

the top and I'm going to paste that address here.

04:06

I'll go save

04:08

And now on my dashboard I can actually see the Federated model of the project as well.

04:12

How cool is this?

04:15

Once I've configured this,

04:17

I can go and select save, this is really important.

04:19

Otherwise it will not save your customization.

04:24

Now, if I want to share this dashboard with the rest of the team members,

04:28

I can simply click on the export option here.

04:31

It lets me to share with which team member. Again,

04:34

I can share it with companiens, roles or individual team members.

04:38

In this case I want to share it with all these companies that are part of my project.

04:43

I'll go export.

04:45

It now sends an email to all these

04:47

team members that said a dashboard exported for them.

04:51

Now going to the dashboards on the top left,

04:54

I can click on this icon here that says create dashboard.

04:58

I can now rename this dashboard,

04:60

I could call it as Hospital Dashboard.

05:03

I can also configure the setting whether I want to share it with

05:06

all project members or selected project members or is it only for me?

05:11

In this case I want to share it with all project members. I'll go done.

05:15

and now I can start adding cards. I'll start with issues.

05:20

Then I'm gonna add this card here.

05:22

Similarly open RFIs And Submitttals, All Issues

05:26

Activity: Added VS Closed and Issue Root Causes.

05:30

I'll go add cards,

05:32

all these cards are added and now I can customize it

05:35

lets in this case I want to move this card here,

05:38

I want to move the Open RFIs and Submittals here and that's

05:43

how I want this dashboard to look like I can now go and select save

05:48

again, I can export it, I can share it and so on.

05:51

And this new dashboard is listed here as Hospital Dashboard

05:56

so at any point of time I can switch between the hospital dashboard and my dashboard,

06:01

how cool is this?

06:04

That's all I have in this objective. I'll see you in the next one, cheers.

Create, Customize, and Share Dashboard and Cards – Practice Exercise

Task 1: Access Insight and the My Dashboard View

  1. Log on to your Autodesk Construction Cloud project. 
  2. Click on the product picker on the top left and then click Insight, as shown below:



  3. Review various cards and their content on the My Dashboard view, as shown below:

Task 2: Customize My Dashboard View and Add Additional Cards

  1. From the top right, click Customize, as shown below:



  2. Click the Card Library button near the top right. 
  3. In the card library, scroll down and select the Autodesk Construction Cloud and ISSUE ROOT CAUSE cards. 
  4. From the bottom right, click Add Cards
  5. Drag and drop the cards on the page where you want them to be located.

Task 3: Configure ACC Card to Display Federated Project Model 

  1. Open the Docs module of the project in another window. 
  2. Navigate to the federated model of the project and then click on it to open it. 
  3. Copy the address listed in the address bar at the top. 
  4. Return to the Insight window. 
  5. In the Autodesk Construction Cloud card, click Configure
  6. Change the card title to Project Federated Model
  7. In the Document Management URL field, paste the address you copied from the Docs window. 
  8. Click Save; the card is configured to display the federated project model now, as shown below:



  9. From the top right, click Save; the customization is saved.

Task 4: Export My Dashboard 

  1. From the top right, click Export as shown below:



  2. From the Share with drop-down list, select the company, role, or individuals with whom you want to share the dashboard. 
  3. Add any additional message in the Message field. 
  4. Click Export from the bottom right; the selected users will get an email that a dashboard is shared with them.

Task 5: Create a New Dashboard 

  1. From the top left, click Create dashboard as shown below:



  2. Rename the dashboard to Project Dashboard
  3. Click the pencil icon on the right of the share option and make sure the dashboard is shared with all project members, as shown below:



  4. From the top right, click Card Library
  5. Select the cards that you want to show on this dashboard. 
  6. From the bottom right, click Add Cards
  7. Drag and drop the cards on the page to place them as you want. 
  8. From the top right, click Save; the new dashboard is created and saved, as shown below:

Create, Customize, and Share Dashboards and Cards - Quiz

Required for course completion

3 questions

What is the default view in the Insight module?

(Select one)
Select an answer

Access to the Insight module is automatically assigned when a member is given access to Docs.

(Select one)
Select an answer

The Insight module does not allow you to create additional dashboards.

(Select one)
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