Dashboards & Charts

Build custom dashboards by chatting with Kai or dragging data sources onto your workspace. No coding required.

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Creating charts

There are two ways to create visualisations in Konnect.

Method 1: Ask Kai

The easiest way. Ask Kai to create a chart and it will query your data and generate the visualisation automatically.

Step-by-step:

1. Open the chat panel (or switch to Chat mode).
2. Type a request — e.g., Create a line chart of temperature readings for the last 4 hours.
3. Press Enter.
4. Kai queries the data and generates the chart.
5. The chart appears both inline in the chat and on the active dashboard tab.

Example requests:

• Show production output per shift as a bar chart
• Build a dashboard with OEE, throughput, and defect rate
• Create a gauge showing current motor temperature

Method 2: Drag and drop

Drag a data source item from the left panel onto the dashboard workspace.

Step-by-step:

1. Expand a data source in the left panel to see its tables, MQTT topics, or OPC-UA tags.
2. Click and drag an item onto the dashboard workspace.
3. Konnect creates a default visualisation for that data.
4. Click the chart to cycle through different chart styles.

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Chart types

Konnect supports the following chart types, powered by ECharts:

Chart	Best for
Line chart	Time-series data, trends
Bar chart	Comparisons, categories
Scatter plot	Correlations, distributions
Gauge	Current values, KPIs
Pie chart	Proportions, breakdowns
Area chart	Cumulative values
Heatmap	Density, patterns
Table	Raw data display

Tip: Click on any chart to cycle through different visualisation styles. Konnect remembers your preferred chart types per data source.

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Dashboard tabs

Organise your visualisations into multiple tabs.

Step-by-step: Creating a new tab

1. Click the + button next to the existing tabs.
2. A new tab is created with a default name.
3. Double-click the tab name to rename it (e.g., “Production Overview”, “Quality Metrics”).

Tab management:

• Rename — Double-click a tab name.
• Reorder — Drag tabs to change their order.
• Duplicate — Right-click a tab and select “Duplicate”.
• Delete — Right-click a tab and select “Delete”.

Example tab setup:

Tab	Contents
Production Overview	OEE gauge, throughput line chart, output bar chart
Quality Metrics	Cp/Cpk gauge, defect rate trend, SPC chart
Energy	Power consumption line chart, cost breakdown pie chart
Alarms	Active alarms table, alarm frequency heatmap

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Dashboard persistence

Dashboards are automatically saved. When you restart Konnect, your dashboard layout, tabs, and chart configurations are restored exactly as you left them.

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Modifying charts with Kai

You can ask Kai to modify your existing dashboards:

• Move the temperature chart to a new tab called "Energy Monitoring"
• Change the bar chart to a line chart
• Add a title to the OEE gauge
• Remove the scatter plot from the current tab

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Exporting

PDF reports

Export chat conversations with inline charts as formatted PDFs:

1. Have a conversation with Kai that includes data and charts.
2. Click Export PDF in the chat toolbar.
3. Save or share the generated report.

Data export

Ask Kai to export query results:

• Export the last query as CSV
• Save the production data as JSON

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Next steps

• Data Sources → — Connect more databases to build richer dashboards.
• MQTT Integration → — Add real-time MQTT data to your dashboards.