Dashboard options

The dashboards themselves also have some options and we already have seen one of them, namely the multimaster, which we discussed in The multi-master module section in Chapter 11, Additional Modules.

The automatically cycle option

The automatically cycle setting allows us to have a dashboard cycle through at a constant speed, so when we have multiple dashboards, we do not need to keep clicking on each tab to see how things are going. This setting is also great when you have your dashboards up on a big screen where the entire department can see them.

Simply tick the Automatically cycle through dashboards box, select the interval from the pull-down menu, and it will immediately start the cycling (as shown in the following screenshot, ...

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