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Animation showing dashboard widgets updating in real time as MQTT topic values change on the broker

Live data updates flow into widgets as broker values change

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Opening the Dashboard Manager

The Dashboard Manager is an app inside the Coreflux HUB. It lists your panels (each panel is one dashboard you can open, share, or refine). From here you add panels, refresh the list, and open a panel to see it live.
Coreflux HUB Dashboards window in Preview grid view with Panels 1, a live thumbnail card for Solar energy site · Energy twin with Public and Published badges and a timestamp, and the List view, Preview grid, Dashboards Builder, themes, create, and refresh controlsCoreflux HUB Dashboards window in Preview grid view with Panels 1, a live thumbnail card for Solar energy site · Energy twin with Public and Published badges and a timestamp, and the List view, Preview grid, Dashboards Builder, themes, create, and refresh controls

Dashboard Manager in Preview grid view: each panel shows a live thumbnail with its name, visibility, state, and last update

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How Panels Are Defined

The Dashboard Manager and the AI Assistant both produce the same thing: a LoT panel definition (DEFINE PANEL …). The Manager shows that definition next to its live result so you can edit either by hand or by asking the assistant. The LoT PANEL reference documents every panel keyword, component, binding, and event.

Dashboards in the HUB

The widget tour, the 60-second first panel, and what dashboards can do.

Defining a panel

Read and write the DEFINE PANEL source behind every dashboard.

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How data updates on a Dashboard

Each component is tied to live data on your broker—typically a topic that already carries the signal from your machines, databases, or Connectors. When that topic’s value changes, the widget updates. You do not configure polling or manual refresh for normal operation.
Coreflux HUB with the Dashboards window in the background and the Solar energy site · Energy twin panel open in a floating window showing a 3D site view with live labels and Site power cards for PV, Site load, Grid, Battery, and Fleet state of chargeCoreflux HUB with the Dashboards window in the background and the Solar energy site · Energy twin panel open in a floating window showing a 3D site view with live labels and Site power cards for PV, Site load, Grid, Battery, and Fleet state of charge

A panel opened in its own window above the Dashboard Manager, with the dock still visible

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Viewing a Panel

You can experience the same panel in more than one layout depending on where you need it.
Open the panel as a floating window on top of the HUB. That keeps the rest of the HUB—connectors, Data Viewer, configuration—one click away while you watch live values or try layout changes.
Coreflux HUB with the KPI Operational Dashboard expanded across the workspace, showing Status reading good, a Message Count trend line chart, and a Message Per Minute gauge reading 196

Panel as a floating window over the HUB — live widgets stay visible while you work elsewhere

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Managing Panels

The toggle in the Panels header switches between List view and Preview grid. The HUB remembers your choice; the list is the default. In the grid, each card shows a live thumbnail of the dashboard, and hovering it shows the same quick actions. Thumbnails don’t run ON MOUNT actions, and cameras, microphones, video, web views, and barcode scanners show a placeholder. Each row in the panel list shows the panel name, a visibility hint (for example Public), its publication state (for example Published), and when it was last updated. Clicking the row itself opens the panel; hovering reveals a row of quick actions on the right for sharing, inspecting, and deleting.
Coreflux HUB Dashboards app showing the KPI Operational Dashboard row with Public and Published badges and three icons on the right for opening as a link, viewing source code, and deleting the dashboard

Panel row with quick actions — open as link, view source, and delete

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Sharing Panels on TVs and External Displays

You can put the same live panel on any screen that runs a browser—control-room wall TVs, lobby KPI boards, shop-floor tablets, or a monitor at a remote site—without installing a separate HMI app or giving everyone full access to the Coreflux HUB. The shareable panel URL opens a dedicated view of that dashboard so viewers see only the panel, not connectors, configuration, or other HUB apps. From the Dashboard Manager, hover the panel row and click the external link icon (first action on the right). That opens the panel in a dedicated tab or window; copy the URL from the address bar and paste it into a browser on a TV stick, kiosk PC, tablet, or any display you want to keep on the loop.
Same live stream as inside the HUB. The shareable URL reflects broker data the same way as the floating window—widgets update when topics change, without manual refresh for normal operation.
Typical uses:
  • Control-room and plant walls — Full-screen dashboards that stay readable from a distance
  • Lobby and office KPI screens — Management views without exposing operator tools
  • Shop-floor tablets — Lightweight devices that only need one panel
  • Stakeholders and contractors — A single URL when someone needs read-only visibility
Coreflux HUB Dashboard Manager highlighting the external link action on a panel row to open a shareable dashboard URL

Open the panel as a shareable URL for TVs, kiosks, and external displays

Deleting a panel from the list removes that dashboard permanently after confirmation.

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Best Practices

Use names that tell you who it is for (for example “Line 3 — Shift Lead”) so the list stays scannable.
Ship a minimal panel with the three signals people ask for most, then add depth once it is in daily use.
Use pumps, valves, and tanks where operators already think in those terms; use charts where trends matter more than mimic layout.
Check labels, ranges, and safety-related controls before handing the panel URL to operators — they will rely on this screen.

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Next Steps

Data Viewer

Browse topics and payloads so you know what to bind each widget to.

AI Assistant

Ask the assistant to suggest layouts, bindings, or improvements to a panel.
Last modified on October 21, 2026