{"id":80731,"date":"2017-12-06T21:44:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T21:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/whats-new-in-operations-dashboard-december-2017\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:15:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:15:35","slug":"whats-new-in-operations-dashboard-december-2017","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/announcements\/announcements\/whats-new-in-operations-dashboard-december-2017","title":{"rendered":"What&#039;s New in Operations Dashboard (December 2017)"},"author":3651,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37101,37141,37121],"tags":[30821,23271,25521,34901,30831,27041,24791,23331,24451],"industry":[],"product":[36591,36671,36571,36551],"class_list":["post-80731","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-decision-support","category-real-time","tag-charts","tag-cop","tag-dashboards","tag-december-2017-release","tag-eoc","tag-map","tag-real-time","tag-situational-awareness","tag-web-map","product-apps","product-ops-dashboard","product-arcgis-enterprise","product-arcgis-online"],"acf":{"short_description":"At-a-glance decision making with Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS\n\nWe are very excited to announce that Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS ha...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><strong>At-a-glance decision making with Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are very excited to announce that Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS has moved out of beta and is now <strong>released<\/strong>! It is included with your ArcGIS Online subscription and will be available with the ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6 release in January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/operations-dashboard\/\">Operations Dashboard<\/a> offers a comprehensive and engaging view of your data, to provide key insights for at-a-glance decision making. It helps you monitor people, services, assets or events by bringing together multiple visualizations that work together on a single screen and are <strong>responsive<\/strong> to data that updates in <strong>real-time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Dashboards are composed of elements, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/operations-dashboard\/help\/map-element-and-tools.htm\"><strong>maps<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/operations-dashboard\/help\/list.htm\"><strong>lists<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/operations-dashboard\/help\/serial-chart.htm\"><strong>charts<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/operations-dashboard\/help\/gauge.htm\"><strong>gauges<\/strong><\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/operations-dashboard\/help\/indicator.htm\"><strong>indicators<\/strong><\/a> that bring forward key performance indicators and draw your attention to where it\u2019s needed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Dashboards1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-90663 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Dashboards1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"798\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fully Integrated with ArcGIS, <a href=\"https:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/operations-dashboard\/help\/understand-data-sources.htm\">leverage your data<\/a> and maps to author stunning dashboards using a <strong>web browser<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/operations-dashboard\/help\/share-a-dashboard.htm\">share them<\/a> across your organization or with the public so that everyone shares a <strong>common view<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Try It Live<\/strong><br \/>\nThe best way to experience Operations Dashboard is to use it. Over the next couple of weeks, we will be providing a number of Dashboards for you to try. Here are a few to get started with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/esri.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/opsdashboard\/index.html#\/37d0e7637f98479e83f5cdcf51038c3e\" target=\"_blank\">Water Quality dashboard<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/esri.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/opsdashboard\/index.html#\/1ecce900ca404673abd678df592b4d3a\" target=\"_blank\">Snowplow Monitoring dashboard<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/esri.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/opsdashboard\/index.html#\/d7661e36aead42208f4faec23dc78235\" target=\"_blank\">Joint Use Survey Inspections dashboard<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/opsdashboard\/index.html#\/9ef296f66f724c36bcaf01fc69768ecd\" target=\"_blank\">Law Enforcement Dashboard<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TryItLive.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TryItLive.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"975\" height=\"406\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>How it works<\/strong><br \/>\nDashboards are items within your organization. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/operations-dashboard\/help\/create-a-dashboard.htm\">create them<\/a> from your content view, when sharing a map, or by launching the Operations Dashboard by clicking the Apps button in the header of your ArcGIS site.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CreateDashboard.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-90664 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CreateDashboard.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"758\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Choose from a rich library of visual elements and <a href=\"https:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/operations-dashboard\/help\/configure-an-element.htm\">configure your visualization<\/a> to present your data your way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Elements.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-90665 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Elements.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drag, group, stack, and resize elements to <a href=\"https:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/operations-dashboard\/help\/dashboard-layout.htm\">set the layout<\/a> how you need it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/12\/layout.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-90666 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/12\/layout.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"777\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Use the <a href=\"https:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/operations-dashboard\/help\/actions.htm\">action framework<\/a> to control the behavior of elements and build interactions that let users derive key performance indicators using <a href=\"https:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/operations-dashboard\/help\/selectors.htm\">selectors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Selectors.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-90667 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Selectors.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"502\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, test and <a href=\"https:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/operations-dashboard\/help\/share-a-dashboard.htm\">share<\/a> the amazing Dashboards and related items with your users.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Operation Views<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you are currently using <a href=\"https:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/operations-dashboard\/operation-views\/\">Operation Views<\/a> within your organization, they will continue to work and be supported. We encourage you to create new Dashboard items that replace your Operation Views and take advantage of all of the new functionality that is now available within your web browser.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>The Operations Dashboard Team<\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":3651,"user_firstname":"Jeff","user_lastname":"Shaner","nickname":"Jeff Shaner","user_nicename":"jeffs","display_name":"Jeff Shaner","user_email":"jshaner@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:15:17","user_description":"Jeff Shaner is a Product Engineering Director with the software products team at Esri. With 30 years experience, Jeff is focused on delivering apps that enable users to work more productively, safely, and effectively. 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