Build a dashboard from a catalog, not a blank canvas

Every widget draws from a curated catalog of 34 production, quality, and maintenance data sources — users pick from the list; they do not author new sources through the UI. A server-enforced cost-weight cap stops a dashboard from becoming an accidentally expensive query, and three built-in dashboards ship with every tenant on day one.

Twenty widget types on a drag-and-drop canvas

The designer offers 20 widget types — KPI Card, Big Number, Gauge, Progress Bar, Status Light, Line Chart, Bar Chart, Pareto, Donut Chart, Stacked Bar, Heatmap, SPC, Table, Alert Feed, Recent Events, Ticker, Calculated, Clock, Text, and Image — placed on a real drag-and-drop grid canvas, not a fixed layout. The grid defaults to 12 columns at 80px cell height, and a new widget defaults to a 3×2 footprint; both are adjustable per dashboard.

A cost-weight cap enforced server-side, not client-side

Every data source carries a cost weight, and the sum across a dashboard's widgets is capped at 50 — checked on every save, before the create or update goes through. The weight comes from the source catalog in the database, never from whatever the browser sends, so a modified client cannot raise its own ceiling. It is a deliberate constraint against the dashboard that quietly becomes fifteen live widgets each polling a heavy query.

Cross-widget drill filtering

Clicking a data point sets a shared filter that every widget on the dashboard with a matching field re-executes against, with a breadcrumb chip to clear it — a way to pivot an entire dashboard's view, not a link to a different page. Today the Pareto widget is the one widget wired to emit a drill, and it drills to the dashboard's top category rather than the specific bar you clicked; more widgets emitting drills is a straightforward extension of the same mechanism.

Scheduled PDF delivery

A dashboard can be scheduled by cron expression, in any IANA timezone, to a list of recipients. Delivery renders the dashboard headlessly and emails it as a PDF — there is no PNG option today, and the schedule is checked once a minute.

Version history, from the audit trail — not a snapshot chain

Rather than storing versioned snapshots, dashboard history is reconstructed from the same tamper-evident audit trail every other record writes to, grouping nearby changes by the same user into a single save event and summarizing what widgets were added, removed, or modified. Reverting to an earlier point replays those audit entries backward. Because it reads from the audit log rather than an independent snapshot table, depth is bounded by audit retention rather than kept forever by design.

Regulatory mapping

Standard	Clause	Qontiv feature
21 CFR Part 11	§11.10(e)	Dashboard and widget changes recorded on the same tamper-evident audit trail as every other record

Scope — what this does and does not do

No custom data-source authoring. You configure and place widgets from the 34-source catalog; you cannot define a new source through the product.
Drill filtering is one widget deep today. Only the Pareto widget emits a drill, and it targets the top category rather than the exact point clicked.
PDF only. Scheduled delivery does not offer PNG or other image formats.

Availability

Three built-in dashboards — production overview, quality today, and line OEE — ship with every tenant. The low-code builder for creating and editing custom dashboards is included inEnterprise. See pricing for the full tier ladder, orrequest a demo to build one against your own data.