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MyStacks Interface Breakdown

UpdatedMay 8, 2025

The MyStacks interface has four main elements: Dashboards, Navigation, Widgets, and a User Profile. Let’s take a look at their structure and main features.  

Dashboards

Dashboards are the primary interface of MyStacks. They are where you create and view visualizations of the data being generated by your devices. Admin users also use dashboards for management tasks such as adding users, managing permissions, and configuring tags with custom names or units of measurement. Each dashboard has an unlimited vertical canvas to arrange widgets.

An example view of a dashboard. The widgets in this example have been grayed out to emphasize the interface elements indicated.
  1. Viewport: This is the area in which you add and organize data visualizations.
  2. Navigation drawer: Click the open icon () to open the navigation drawer and switch between multiple dashboards, or create new ones.
  3. Dashboard name: This is the name of your currently viewed dashboard. Click here to directly edit the name of your dashboard.
  4. Add widget: Click the plus button () to open the widget menu and add a widget to your dashboard. This is only available when a dashboard is unlocked.
  5. Lock/Unlock: Click the lock icon () to enable or disable editing of this dashboard.
  6. Share menu: Click the three dots () to open a menu with several options for managing how this dashboard is shared with other users.
  7. User profile: Click here to manage your account profile.

Navigation

The navigation menu () is where you browse groups and dashboards that you have permission to access. You may click a dashboard to view it, or create a new one by clicking the ‘Create new dashboard’ button. If you are part of a large organization with many dashboards, they will likely be organized into folders as shown in the example below. You may create an unlimited number of dashboards.

An example view of the navigation drawer showing folders, dashboards, and groups.
  1. Search: Click here to quickly search for a dashboard or group by name. Type in the text field to narrow the list of results.
  2. Create new dashboard: Click here to create a new dashboard. This dashboard will be visible only to you until you choose to share it with a user or group.
  3. ‘Visible Only to Me’: This folder contains dashboards that are not visible or accessible to other users. When a dashboard is shared with a group, it will be moved from this folder to the relevant group to indicate that it is not longer private. When duplicating dashboards, the new copies will appear under the ‘Visible Only to Me’ folder.
  4. Folders: Click on the name or arrow to open and close a folder. Folder names and structure are determined by the names of dashboards. In the example above, naming this dashboard ‘NorthAmerica.Chicago.PCBLine1’ has created a folder ‘NorthAmerica’, containing a folder ‘Chicago’, in which you can find the dashboard ‘PCBLine1’.
  5. Dashboards: Click a dashboard in the drawer to view it.
  6. Groups: Groups are collections of users, devices, and dashboards. They organize which groups of users have access to certain data sources and dashboards. You may share a dashboard to make it available to a group. Users may be added or removed from groups using the Organization Management widget, explained in detail here.

Widgets

Widgets are visual elements such as gauges, bar charts, or tables used to display data in meaningful and useful ways. The Add New Widget menu () presents you with a list of all available widgets, grouped into categories based on the kinds of data they accept and common use cases. We will explore individual widgets in greater detail later, while the general categories are summarized below.

The Add New Widget menu. This menu is updated frequently with new options.
  1. Single value: Widgets that display a single data value, typically the latest reading from a sensor or device. They can display a raw numerical value, or may be customized to display various representative icons or text.
  2. Time series: Widgets that display a series of values over a specified timeframe, such as line charts. These can display multiple tags, from multiple devices.
  3. Analytics: Widgets that conduct more complex analyses of the incoming data. For example, taking in raw power consumption data and interpreting it to display a counter showing how many products a machine produces today.
  4. Administrative: Widgets that deal with the management of MyStacks dashboards, or communications with Interstacks hardware. These include managing user permissions, checking the status of Interstacks devices, and setting up conditions that might trigger an email or text alert.
  5. Other: Highly specialized or experimental widgets may be displayed here for certain uses or groups.

User Profile

The user profile menu () is where you can change your username, or manage login security settings such as Multi-factor Authentication (MFA). Click your name or profile icon in the upper right, and select ‘My Profile’ to make changes.

The user profile interface.
  1. Email: The email associated with your account. This cannot be changed for security reasons. Contact info@interstacks.com for support with any issues.
  2. Name: Your preferred display name.
  3. MFA preference: Click here to select Email, SMS, or Disabled.
  4. Phone entry: Enter a phone number capable of receiving an SMS here to receive a confirmation code. This will confirm your identity when setting up MFA. Phone numbers require a “+” sign and country code with no spaces or dashes, as in the format +14123339876 for the United States (+1) number 412-333-9876.
  5. Code entry: When setting up MFA for the first time, enter the code you receive here and click the ‘Verify Phone’ button. Once your phone number has been verified, this field will be hidden.
  6. Cancel: Click here to close this window without saving.
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