¶ What is the dashboard?
The dashboard gives you a visual overview of the data your user has access to in Diri. It uses risk tools such as the risk matrix and the control matrix, together with charts and tables, so you can keep track of the risk picture, work progress and other data collected in Diri.
Open it with Dashboard at the top of the left-hand menu.
¶ Ready-made dashboards
Each module (for example Cyber security, Operational risk, Privacy and Governance & Compliance) comes with a predefined dashboard with widgets tailored to that module. The widgets are shown in English or Norwegian, depending on your language setting. You can use the predefined dashboard as it is, or customise it.
From the dashboard you can also go directly to the Annual wheel and to Design report, where you build printable reports from the same kinds of widgets. See Report designer.
¶ Dashboard configurations
A dashboard configuration is bound to two things:
- Module – each module has its own dashboard.
- Organisation – users who can switch organisation (for example administrators) have separate dashboard configurations per organisation.
¶ Customise the dashboard
- Click Customize in the upper right corner of the dashboard.
- Drag widgets from the widget list and drop them where you want them on the dashboard.
- Hover over a widget to show its icons: the settings (cog) icon to configure it, and the icon to remove it. You can also expand or shrink a widget.
- Click Save when you are done.
Other options while customising:
- Use Default – go back to the predefined dashboard for the module.
- Clear dashboard – remove all widgets. If the dashboard has widgets, you are asked to confirm, because the layout and its widgets are permanently deleted.
¶ Dashboard widgets
Every widget can be given its own Title and Description, and its Width and Height can be adjusted individually. The widget types are:
| Widget type | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Risk Matrix | Risks plotted by probability and impact, using your organisation's risk matrix. |
| Control Matrix | Treatments (controls) distributed by type and class, with implementation status. Can be filtered by framework. |
| Table and Data Table | Lists of records from Diri. The data table has selectable columns and sorting. |
| Pie Chart and Bar Chart | Statistics grouped by a field, for example treatments by status. |
| Stacked Bar | Task progress. |
| Text Block and Image | Your own explanatory text or an image. |
The predefined dashboards also contain ready-made widgets, such as the company risk picture, treatment status and task overviews.
¶ Risk matrix widget
The colours and level names in the risk matrix come from your organisation's risk matrix settings (see Settings). To add a risk matrix:
- Click Customize and add the risk matrix to the dashboard.
- Hover over the widget and click the settings icon. A configuration panel opens on the right.
- Set the title, description, width and height.
- Choose which risk assessments to include, and which stage of the risk matrix to display.
¶ Table widgets
Table widgets show records from Diri on the dashboard. Add a Table or Data Table widget; a new widget must be configured before it shows data.
Click the settings icon to configure the widget. Set a title and description, choose the data source (Resource) and choose the columns to show. For the data table you can also set a Row limit and Sort direction. Try different content, heights and widths to find the best layout.
¶ Chart widgets (advanced users)
The Pie Chart and Bar Chart widgets let you build your own statistics. You choose a data source and the field to group by, and you can filter on other fields. This is intended for advanced users who work with well-structured data and have specific analytical needs.
¶ How to create a compliance dashboard
A compliance dashboard helps you track progress in your information security work and your management system. You can configure chart widgets to show, for example, the implementation status of your treatments. Make sure that the treatments you want to show belong to the module the dashboard is for.
To follow up framework controls (status, maturity and evidence per framework), use the framework overview under Frameworks. See Frameworks.
¶ Creating a pie chart for treatments
The example above shows treatment statistics based on implementation status. To build a chart like this, your treatments must be categorised, for example with status, class and type:
Status, class and type are categorical fields that work well in pie and bar charts. Similar fields exist for most records in Diri and can be used in the same way.
- On the dashboard, click Customize.
- Select the Pie Chart widget and drag it to where you want it.
- Click the settings (cog) icon on the widget to open the configuration, and enter the title and description you want.
- In Resource, select Treatment. The resource is the type of record the chart draws its data from.
- In Group by, select the field to group the treatments by, for example status. Selecting one field is enough to draw the chart; grouping by status shows the implementation status of the treatments in percentages.
- Save the dashboard.
The configuration panel on the left decides how the treatment status is shown in the pie chart on the right:
- Resource – the data source for the chart.
- Group by – the field the records are grouped by (implementation status in the example).
- Property – an optional field to filter on.
- Condition – whether the selected property should include or exclude a specific value.
This lets you compare progress across treatment groups. In the example below, the resource is treatments, the chart is grouped by implementation status, and the property Type with the value Technological is used as the condition for inclusion:
Depending on what you want to show, you can make several widgets side by side for comparison or reporting.