5.1. Setting Up Your Dashboard

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## 5.1. Setting Up Your Dashboard

The Dashboard displays “live” views of EKM objects that interest you. You can display up to six objects at a time on the Dashboard and each object is displayed in its own gadget.

There are several different types of gadgets that you can set up: Container, File, Discussion Board, Extraction Monitor, Job Monitor, Process Monitor, My Tasks, Saved Query, and URL. The figure below shows some dashboard gadget examples. Setting Up Dashboard Gadgets provides details on how to set up each type of dashboard gadget.

Figure 5.1: Sample Dashboard Gadgets

Most gadgets contain direct links to objects. For example, if you click on a task in the My Tasks gadget, the task will launch on the Process Monitor page, allowing you to perform the work immediately.

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