Extending Dashboard Functionality with Python and JavaScript

Add more functionality to free-form dashboards with Python and JavaScript. Whether you want to respond to data source updates or create custom widgets, use limited Python code or a JavaScript wrapper to interact with your free-form dashboards more.

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This dashboard type is deprecated. NI recommends that you use tile dashboards instead of free-form dashboards for new visualizations you create.

Complete any of the following steps to meet your dashboard goals.

• Add Python event scripts to widgets—Add an event script to a widget to register and respond to events.
• Add a shared script to reuse in a dashboard—Create scripts to apply to your entire dashboard.
• Use tags to generate a new value to bind to a widget—Add a virtual tag script to create tags to use only in your dashboard whose values are based on the values of the tags in your system.