Prepare Dashboard Storage

• Mar 04, 2021
• 2 minutes to read

The Web Dashboard requires creating a special storage used to keep dashboards. End users can save new dashboards to this storage and open existing dashboards.

The following storage types are available:

Storage Type	Class	Description
In-Memory Storage	DashboardInMemoryStorage	In-memory dashboard storage is a default storage used to keep dashboards. The Web Dashboard uses the DashboardInMemoryStorage if you do not specify storage.
File Storage	DashboardFileStorage	File dashboard storage is used to store dashboards in a file system.
Custom Storage	Implementation of IDashboardStorage or IEditableDashboardStorage	You can specify your logic to manage dashboards. To do this, implement the IDashboardStorage or IEditableDashboardStorage interfaces with the following methods: The IDashboardStorage.GetAvailableDashboardsInfo method returns information about dashboards stored in storage. The IDashboardStorage.LoadDashboard/IDashboardStorage.SaveDashboard methods allows you to load/save the dashboard from/to the storage. The IEditableDashboardStorage.AddDashboard method allows you to add a new dashboard to the storage. More information: Manage Multi-Tenancy.
Dashboard Type Storage	DashboardTypeStorage	Dashboard storage created at design time within Visual Studio. You can use DashboardTypeStorage in the Viewer mode only. The ASP.NET Core dashboard control does not allow to edit these dashboards at design time.

To create storage that contains dashboards, pass the selected storage instance to the DashboardConfigurator.SetDashboardStorage method as a parameter. The following code snippet shows how to set in-memory storage when you configure backend settings for the ASP.NET Core Dashboard control:

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) {
    services
        .AddMvc()
        .AddDefaultDashboardController((configurator, serviceProvider)  => {
            // ...
            configurator.SetDataSourceStorage(new DataSourceInMemoryStorage());
        });
    // ...
}

See the following topic for information about access rights: Security Considerations