Dashboards
Dashboards is CleverCommand's second-screen deck. Each entry is a screen built to be watched rather than worked — big type, no forms, nothing that needs a mouse — so it can sit on a spare monitor or a wall TV while you work the queue on your main screen.
Open it from Dashboards in the left rail. The page introduces itself as Second screen.
Opening a screen
Every screen is a card carrying a short code (G-13, G-12, and so on), a name and a one-line description of what it shows.
- Click the card to open the screen in place. It takes over the working area, and a Full screen button appears once you are in.
- Click the pop-out icon on the card instead to send it straight to a new window — the one to drag onto a second monitor or the wall TV.
Inside a screen the top bar carries the same choices again: Full screen (press Esc to come back) and Pop out.
The new window is a normal browser window on the same account. Drag it to the wall display, put it full screen, and leave it. It keeps updating without anyone touching it, and it survives a page reload — it comes back on the same screen, with the same settings, so you can leave one running on a wall TV permanently.
Built to be left alone
A screen that is popped out or full screen behaves like a wall display:
- The display stays awake. The computer behind a wall TV gets no keyboard or mouse traffic, so left to itself it would blank the screen or start a screensaver. While a screen is popped out or full screen, CleverCommand asks the browser to keep the display on. (A browser or power policy can refuse this; the screen then sleeps as it normally would.)
- The pointer gets out of the way. In a popped-out window, the Full screen and Dashboards buttons fade three seconds after the mouse stops moving, and the mouse pointer hides with them. Move the mouse and both come back.
- Each screen says when it has lost touch. The Snapshot Wall and the Wall Map both turn their live dot amber and show Reconnecting · last update … if their data stops arriving, instead of quietly showing an old picture. They keep retrying and recover by themselves.
- Each screen puts itself back. Anything opened on a wall — an enlarged snapshot, a map popup, the map's filter panel — closes by itself after a short while with nobody at the mouse.
What is on the deck today
Three screens are offered:
| Code | Screen | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| G-13 | Snapshot Wall | The latest frame from every camera at sites with open events, tiled for a wall. |
| G-12 | Wall Map | The whole room on one map — open events, response units, areas and community cameras. |
| G-05 | Community Chimes | The community chime feed as a wall screen. |
Snapshot Wall is available to every control room. Wall Map and Community Chimes need the Advanced Alarm Handling module, and a room without it simply does not see those cards.
The deck holds a larger catalogue — evidence walls, site dossiers, dispatch advisors, shift scoreboards and others. They are deliberately kept off the picker until each earns a place on an operator's screen. Anything already popped out onto a wall TV keeps working, because the addresses stay live.
Following versus Pinned
Some screens are built to follow whatever event you are working on: open a different event on your main screen and the wall screen changes with you. Those carry a toggle in the top bar:
- Following — the screen tracks your focused event. This is the default and the usual setting.
- Pinned — the screen stops following and holds what it is showing. Use it when you want to keep an incident up on the wall while you deal with something else.
The signal travels between windows, so a popped-out screen on a second monitor still follows the event you open on your main one. A screen opened fresh picks up whatever you were already looking at.
A screen only follows your own sign-in in your own control room. If someone else signs in on the same computer, or you sign in to a different control room, a screen opened afterwards starts empty. It never shows an event left behind from the earlier sign-in. It fills in as soon as you open an event.
Screens that show the whole room rather than one event — the Snapshot Wall, the Wall Map — have nothing to follow, so they have no toggle.
Related
- Snapshot Wall — the wall in detail
- Wall Map — the map in detail
- Interface Overview — where Dashboards sits in the rail