Pyron shows your information on pages. Each page holds a set of widgets — the tables, charts and tiles that display your data — laid out together on one grid. 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 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.
Widgets show your data
A widget is a single block on a page. Each one shows one thing, and a page can hold several widgets side by side, arranged on a grid you can rearrange. When you want another view of the same entries — a summary and a detailed list, say — make a second page for it.
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.
- A files block shows one folder of each place's files, such as Shared with guests. On a page shared with guests, it is where they download what you send them and, when you let them, add their own. Each guest sees the folder only at their own places. See An item's files.
Widgets read live data, so what they show stays in step with the entries filed there. To learn what an entry is, see Entries.
Private and shared pages
There is one kind of page. A page you make is private to you until you share it with people, roles or everyone, each able to view it or edit it. See Sharing pages.
- Pages on a place belong to a place or thing in the directory. You open them by going there, and nobody sees more of one than they can see of its place — the common case described above.
- Pages of their own are not tied to any one part of the directory. You find them under Pages, and those shared with you under Pages → Shared with you. A page joins the app's main navigation only when someone shows it there for everyone. A dashboard is such a page. See Dashboards.
Both are built the same way — widgets on a grid. What changes between them is where you find the page and who else can see it.