Text Widget
Kilo's Text widget adds headings, notes, or lists of selected devices, rules, and alarms to your dashboard.
A Text widget adds headings and instructions to an operations dashboard. It can also list selected devices, rules, or alarm definitions, so operators can see the equipment and automation behind the readings they monitor.
Use a device list next to a site’s air-quality charts, a rule list for entrance monitoring, and an alarm list showing the severity of the definitions used by the team. These lists describe configured resources; they do not replace measurement widgets or the alarm inbox.
Add a heading or a resource list
Open the dashboard and choose Actions → Edit dashboard. You need permission to edit it and access to the resources you want to display.
Choose Add widget → Text.
Enter Widget name, the heading shown on the tile, and an optional Description below it.
Select Data type. Keep None for a heading and note, or choose Devices, Rules, or Alarms for a resource list.
For a list, select the entries in Artifacts. You can choose several; remove an individual selection to leave it out.
Set the display options below, check the preview, and select Save.
Move or resize the tile, then Save the dashboard layout.
Display options
None
Widget name and optional description only.
Devices
Number of devices, Connector, Device provider, and Icon.
Rules
Number of rules and Icon.
Alarms
Number of alarms, Alarm severity, and Icon.
Counts refer to the selected resources available to the widget. An alarm count is the number of selected alarm definitions, not the number of open incidents. Alarm severity displays the definition's severity. Connector and provider details help distinguish device sources where that information is available.
Use and maintain the list
Open a device by selecting its row in the saved dashboard. Rules and alarms are displayed as list entries; open their platform sections to manage them. Adding a resource to a widget does not change its Application membership or start its automation.
Entries follow the configured selection order. If a selected resource is deleted or is no longer returned to the widget, its entry is omitted and the count reflects the remaining available entries. Edit Artifacts to revise the selection as your setup changes.
Organization resource lists are hidden in public/kiosk viewing. Use ordinary headings and notes for information that must appear on a public display.
When alarm choices do not load
The Alarms data type can show No options in Artifacts even when the organization has alarm definitions. If this happens, use Alarm → Alarm definitions to inspect them and Alarm to monitor incidents. Device and rule lists can still be configured separately. Do not use an empty alarm-list tile as evidence that the site has no alarms.
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