Getting Started

Your mSupply Dashboard uses Grafana, an open source visualisation tool that is linked to your mSupply data. This User Guide contains external links to Grafana information pages to explain various concepts and how to edit your current dashboard and create new dashboards.

Each Dashboard is composed of editable Panels arranged on a grid. The panels are separated by rows and can be dragged-and-dropped to a different location on the grid. Each panel queries your mSupply data to give you information in a visual form (graph, table etc).

The dashboards can be configured such that data visibility is controlled according to the store login permissions of the user. This can be an efficient way of managing dashboards. Instead of having a large range of very similar dashboards where the only difference between them is the user / store who's data is visible, you can have just one dashboard, where different users will see data according to the stores which they have permission to log in to.

You can view and share data from your dashboard, change the appearance and type of data the panels in your dashboard show, and create new dashboards customised to suit your needs.

For a detailed overview refer to Grafana Dashboard Concepts

It is possible to set up users under Grafana. Grafana has documentation for this and will not be detailed here. As dashboard access is likely highly correlated with store access within mSupply, it is not recommended to use this method, but to set up users from within mSupply.

You can login to the dashboard using your current mSupply login. An account is created for you automatically in the grafana system with standard viewer-level permissions. If you are to have a Grafana editor or administrator role, then Sustainable Solutions, or another Grafana administrative user, can set that up for you in Grafana after you have logged in for the first time.

It is recommended to configure dashboard such that the data visible is filtered according to the user's permission to log in to the store. In this case, you will need to do some more configuration of the user in mSupply:

Other than these, no other special configuration of the mSupply user account is required - including any permissions in any of the stores.

Users log in by entering the URL address of dashboard on a web browser.

When you log in you may see a suite of dashboards similar to the example below.

This example is showing the 'Overview' Dashboard.
It is set to a Time Range of 'Previous year'
This Dashboard example contains six Panels:

• Total stock value
• Stock status
• Stock value by store
• Transactions per store
• Months of stock by region
• Stock history over time by store