# Proxus dashboard items

> The items Proxus adds to the dashboard designer, next to the standard charts, grids and gauges. What each one is for, the data it takes and its settings.

Source: https://proxus.io/docs/analyze/dashboard-items

The dashboard designer has two kinds of items. The standard ones (charts, grids, cards, gauges, pies, maps) come from
the dashboard engine Proxus is built on; the
[DevExpress dashboard documentation](https://docs.devexpress.com/Dashboard/116523/basic-concepts-and-terminology/dashboard-items)
describes them. Proxus adds its own items for plant screens: machine and line states, OEE, asset health, flows and
timelines. This part of the documentation describes those.

## How a Proxus item works

Every Proxus item works the same way as a standard one:

- **Data fields.** You give the item columns of the dashboard's data source. A field is either a **dimension** (a
  name, a time, a category: what the item groups by) or a **measure** (a number the item adds up). Each item's page
  lists its fields, with the ones it cannot do without.
- **Settings.** Options of the item itself, such as thresholds or what to show. Each page lists them with their
  default values.
- **Filtering.** Where the page says so, selecting a part of the item (a tile, a bar, a row) filters the other items
  of the dashboard by it.

To add one, open the dashboard, select **Switch to Design Mode** and pick the item in the designer's toolbox by its
icon. See [Use and build dashboards](https://proxus.io/docs/analyze/dashboards) for design mode and for the data a dashboard can use.

## Items