The Dashboard View plugin - overview and usage

Dashboard View plugin provides a different view implementation, based on a portal kind of layout. We can select different build jobs to be included in a new view and configure different portlets for the view.

To configure it, follow these steps:

1. Go to Plugin Manager from Manage Jenkins, and click on the Available tab. Search for the Dashboard View plugin and click on Install without restart:

   

2. Once the plugin has been installed successfully, we can create a new view by clicking on the + sign on the Jenkins dashboard.

3. Enter a View name, select the view type, and click on OK:

   

4. Click on Edit and configure Dashboard Portlets for the top, left column, right column, and bottom. We can use different portlets, such as Test Statistics Chart, and Trends:

   

5. Add different portlets based on your requirements into the view, and save it. Here's a sample view:

   

6. After we run the build job, we can find a test result chart on the build job's dashboard as well:

   

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