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Build a dashboard and run the simulation.

Create a first dashboard canvas and add the controls you need to make a simulation visible and interactive.

  • Create a canvas from the Project explorer.
  • Add a textbox, a button and an LED in the visual editor.

Create a canvas with three widgets

This example builds a small control row in a new canvas. It uses the same editor workflow for every widget: enter edit mode, then drag the widget from the palette onto the grid.

  1. Add a new Canvas

    In the Project explorer, open the `Online` group, right-click `Canvas` and choose `Add new Canvas`.

    The Canvas context menu with Add new Canvas highlighted

  2. Enter edit mode

    Open `first_dashboard` from the Canvas tree, then select the pencil in the Editor header. The canvas grid and the widget palette are now ready for editing.

    The open first_dashboard Canvas with its edit-mode action highlighted

  3. Add the Textbox, Button and LED

    Drag `Textbox`, `Button` and `LED` from Canvas Widgets onto the grid and arrange them in a row.

    The Canvas editor containing a Textbox, Button and LED

  4. Bind the LED to a sysvar

    Name the Textbox `Setpoint` and the Button `Apply`. Select the LED, scroll to Widget Properties and enter `example_status_led` in `Variable`.

    The LED selected with example_status_led entered in the highlighted Variable field

  5. Save the dashboard

    Select the save action in the Editor header to keep the canvas and leave edit mode.

    The save action highlighted in the Canvas Editor header