Pyron shows your information on pages. A page is split into tabs, and each tab holds a set of widgets — the tables, charts and tiles that display your data. Most pages belong to something in your directory, so opening a site or a vehicle brings up the page built for it.
Every place in the directory can have pages
Everything in your directory comes with its own page. You reach it by opening the item, and the page is ready the first time you go there — there is no separate step to set one up. It gathers the information filed there in one place.
The page starts with a table of the entries filed there, so you can see what has been captured straight away. From there the page can grow: add tabs and widgets to show the same information in more ways.
Because the page belongs to its place in the directory, who can open it follows that item's own access. Anyone who can see the item can see its page — the page is not shared on its own.
To learn how the directory fits together, see The directory. For the steps to work with these pages, see Directory pages.
Tabs organise a page
A page is divided into tabs. Each tab is a named section with its own layout of widgets, and a page always opens on its first tab.
Tabs keep one page tidy when it has more to show than fits in a single view. You might keep a summary on one tab, a detailed table of entries on another, and a set of charts on a third. Switching tabs changes what you see without leaving the page or the place it belongs to.
Widgets show your data
A widget is a single block on a tab. Each one shows one thing, and a tab can hold several widgets side by side, arranged on a grid you can rearrange.
The kinds of widget you can place cover the common ways to look at your information:
- A table lists the entries filed beneath this part of the directory, with columns you can sort, filter and search. See Table widgets.
- A chart summarises those entries as a graph, such as a count over time or a breakdown by category. See Chart widgets.
- A metric tile shows a single headline number, such as a total or an average. See KPI widgets.
- A form lets you capture a new entry straight from the page, without opening a separate screen. See Form widgets.
- A canvas gives you a freer layout for richer, mixed content. See Canvas widgets.
Widgets read live data, so what they show stays in step with the entries filed there. To learn what an entry is, see Entries.
Global, directory and personal pages
Pages come in three kinds, set by who the page belongs to and where you find it.
- Directory pages belong to a place or thing in the directory. You open them by going there, and they follow its access — the common case described above.
- Global pages are not tied to any one part of the directory. They are shared with people across your organisation and reached from the app's main navigation rather than through the tree. A dashboard is a global page. See Dashboards.
- Personal pages are private to you. Only you can see a personal page you create, which makes them a good place for a view you want to keep to yourself. See Personal pages.
All three are built the same way — tabs holding widgets. What changes between them is who the page belongs to and who else can see it.