Before you begin
This feature requires additional technical knowledge, such as working with command line tools. You may want to work with your organization's IT team when setting up this feature.
These steps should all be completed using the computer that will be connected to the screen that displays the dashboards. Instructions may differ when using Linux on x86 or Mac on Intel processor.
Plans: Professional and Enterprise
Audience: Administrators and IT professionals
Operating system: Windows 10 or later
This article covers the steps required to display dashboards to a wider audience, such as on large screens on your shop floor.
The main steps are:
- Get the dashboard links
- Download and configure the display files
- Run the display file
- (Optional) Automate login for dashboard display
Get the dashboard links
As part of this setup, you'll need the direct links to the dashboards you want to display. To find those links:
- In your CMMS, go to Analytics.
- Navigate to the folder for the dashboard you want to display.
- Open the dashboard in a new tab by holding the CTRL key and clicking the dashboard.
- Copy and paste the URL into a note or other file where you can easily reference it later.
- Repeat steps 2-4 for any additional dashboards you want to display.
Download and edit the config files
- Download FiixLineView_Public – Beta.zip from this Github repository.
- Extract the ZIP file.
- Open the file appsettings.json.
- Make the following changes to the file:
- Change the LoginDomain to your tenant ID (i.e. the part of your CMMS URL that comes before "macmms" or "fiix.software").
- Change the Username to the email address or username that you use to log in to Fiix.
- Replace the dashboard URLs with the ones you made note of in the previous section.
- Click Save.
Note
If using Linux on x86 or Mac on Intel processor, you can download the entire project instead of just the ZIP file.
Run the display file
- Open the file FiixLineView.exe.
- When prompted, enter your Fiix password. This must be the password for the username you specified in step 4 above.
Once logged in, the app cycles through the dashboards you specified in the previous section.
Note
If using Linux on x86 or Mac on Intel processor, you can install the dotnet runtimes from Microsoft and then run "dotnet run" from the parent project folder.
(Optional) Automate login for dashboard display
Instead of having to log in to Fiix manually each time you want to display the dashboards, you can instead create a shortcut that will automatically log you in and then open the dashboards.
- Create a shortcut that opens the file FiixLineView.exe.
- In the shortcut properties, add your Fiix password to the Target field.
For example, if the EXE file is saved in C:\FiixLineView_Public and your Fiix password is "Password123", the Target field would be "C:\FiixLineView_Public\FiixLineView.exe Password123" - Click OK.
Note
If using Linux on x86 or Mac on Intel processor, you can similarly append your password to the end of "dotnet FiixLineView" (e.g. "dotnet FiixLineView Password123")