January 15, 2025: Easy access to hidden filter widgets

Filter widgets, both visible and hidden on the dashboard, can now be edited more easily through the new Edit Filters option.

This option is available on the dashboard actions menu only when the dashboard already has a filter widget. By clicking this option, you will navigate directly to the filter widget's configuration editor.

For comparison, in the past you had to use the rearrange widgets option and then navigate to the filter widget.

For details, refer to Filter Panel widget and Editing a widget.

January 15, 2025: Custom widgets can now be developed and shared across Bosch IoT Insights projects

There are plenty of available widgets in Bosch IoT Insights. Despite that, there are use cases which cannot be well-served through these widgets.

For such situations, Bosch IoT Insights now offers the possibility to its paid plan customers to develop, build, and deploy their own custom widgets, and also share them with other projects. The widgets can be developed as so called "web components" in any suitable development framework and language, e.g. Angular, JavaScript, etc.

To allow an easy start with this new feature, we provide a demo repository containing an example on how to do this. This repository can be shared with the authorized custom widget developers. It contains the required configurations, a few templates which can be easily copied and adjusted, as well as the build and deploy workflows.

Once an own custom widget is deployed, the Custom Widgets will appear as a third group in the Add Widget dialog, after the General Widgets and Chart Widgets.

The new feature is documented from the perspective of the different roles involved in the process - a Bosch IoT Insights project admin, a custom widget developer, and a custom widget reviewer.

To learn how to use the Custom Widgets UI menu, refer to Custom Widgets in the User guide.

For more in-depth technical information, refer to Custom Widgets in the Developer guide.

See also an introduction to Web Components.

January 10, 2025: Tab widget now supports data sources and dynamic tab titles

The widget configurator is now enriched with the well-known sections of General Settings, Data Sources and Data Transformation, which are present in several other widgets already.

In addition to the title of the widget itself, now the titles of the separate tabs can also include dynamic data source references, filter widget references, as well as user context references.

For details, refer to Tab widget.

January 8, 2025: Copy-pasting of custom properties of devices

With the new improvement, custom device properties can now be easily copied and pasted through the dedicated buttons.

The Copy all button allows you to copy all custom properties of a certain device and then paste them with the proper table formatting, for example in Excel or Notepad.

The Paste button allows you to paste a set of properties which were already copied, for example from another source like Excel or Notepad. By that, you can add multiple new custom properties to a device at once. You simply need to click on any key or value field, and then click the Paste button, or use the keyboard combinations from the button's tooltip.

For details, refer to General information block.