ProdDash Viewer

A window onto ProdDash. It shows one installation’s dashboard — or several, with a tab for each — and nothing else.

Add an installation

• Choose ProdDash Viewer → Settings… (⌘,), then Connections, then +.
• Name is what its tab says — “AB Booth”, “NA Ingest”.
• Address is the one you open ProdDash at in a browser, such as 10.3.11.152:24500. Leave the port off and ProdDash’s own, 24500, is used. The sheet tells you as you type whether ProdDash is answering there.
• Double-click a connection to change it; drag connections to change the order of the tabs.

Switch between installations

With two or more connections, a slim tab bar of their names sits under the title bar. It tucks itself away so the dashboard has the whole window: point at the title bar and it slides back out.

• In full screen, move the pointer to the top of the screen — the tab bar comes down with the menu bar. It also shows for a moment after each switch, so you can see where you are.
• ⌃Tab and ⌃⇧Tab go to the next and previous installation; ⌘1–⌘8 go straight to one, ⌘9 to the last.
• Every dashboard stays live in the background, so switching is instant.
• A tab with ⚠︎ is an installation that isn’t answering.

Full screen

Click the green button, or choose View → Enter Full Screen (fn F or ⌃⌘F). If the Viewer was in full screen when it quit, it opens in full screen again — so a booth Mac that restarts comes back as it was left.

The dashboard’s own full-screen button works too: it fills the screen with the dashboard alone, tab bar and all put away. Press Esc to leave it.

Moving around

• View → Back (⌘[), Forward (⌘]) — after opening the admin page from the dashboard, for example. Swiping with two fingers works as in Safari.
• View → Reload Page (⌘R).
• Links to anywhere outside the installation open in your web browser.

When an installation can’t be reached

The Viewer says why — nothing answering, the address can’t be found, no network — and keeps trying by itself, so a dashboard comes back on its own after ProdDash restarts or its Mac reboots. Try Again asks right away.

If macOS asked whether ProdDash Viewer may find devices on your local network and the answer was no, it can’t reach anything: allow it in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Local Network.

General settings

• Open at login — start the Viewer when this Mac’s user logs in. macOS may ask you to approve it in System Settings first.
• Keep the display awake — while a dashboard is on screen, the display doesn’t dim or sleep. On unless you turn it off.

Keyboard shortcuts