Checkmk Werk 11245: Dashboard: Improve context sensitive dashboard handling

ID: 11245 Title: Dashboard: Improve context sensitive dashboard handling Component: Multisite Level: 2 Class: New feature Version: 1.7.0i1 Each user opening a dashboard is now able to apply custom filters to a dashboard when viewing it. This can be done by opening the "Update context" dialog from the dashboard menu. be used to filter the data shown by the dashboard. This is much like the filter form in the views. One additional feature has been added that can be used to enforce the user to use one or multiple filters when initially opening a dashboard. Imagine you want to have a dashboard that shows data of hosts in a given hostgroup, for example you want to have a linux, windows, unix dashboard and so on. In previous versions you could build one dashboard and clone it multiple times while changing the filter group name for each of the cloned dashboards. That would work, but you would end up with a lot of similar dashboards where only the hard coded host group filter was different. Now you can define a single dashboard and select the "Host is Group" filter in the new "Required context filters" option from the dashboard properties. Once you have done this, the dashboard will automatically open the "Dashboard Context" dialog when initially opening the dashboard. After selecting the host group, the dashboard will be rendered. Btw.: You could also open the dashboard with the prefilled URL parameters to prevent the "Dashboard Context" dialog from popping up.