Create experiences

Experiences provide a structured and interactive visualization experience with a great amount of flexibility to design what you want. Their deep customization allows unlimited choice in design, color schemes, menu interactions, and content mix.

Experiences can be created by users with the administrator or builder role.

Key features of experiences include:

• Definable navigation: Implement custom navigation, use your existing asset hierarchies, or use a mix of both. The navigation tree and navigation bar content items allow you to customize how users navigate through the experience hierarchy.

• Relative referencing based on asset context: Content and data can populate dynamically based on a selected asset.

  Each item in your navigation hierarchy, called a "navigation item," can reference an asset. The content in each navigation item can then display information based on that asset context.

An experience allows you to configure visualizations, graphics, and content items in the root navigation item, then have each navigation item in the experience use that configured content to display information about a different asset.

For example, you may create an experience where each navigation item represents a different wind turbine on a wind farm. On the root navigation item, you add charts displaying the expected output and actual output for the first turbine. By default the content items are configured to follow the asset context. You then add child navigation items for the additional turbines on the wind farm, with each referencing the appropriate wind turbine asset. Since the content items follow the asset context, they automatically update to show data for that asset.

That's one example, but experiences are flexible. You can also add navigation items that don't reference an asset, or change the content that is displayed in a particular navigation item.

To create an experience

1. Select Create from the navigation rail, then select Experience. The experience designer opens.

2. Configure the layout properties and experience thumbnail.

3. Configure the panes and layout of the experience:

   1. Add and split panes.

   2. Configure pane properties.

4. Add and manage navigation items.

5. Add a navigation bar or navigation tree.

6. Add a time selector if any content will have Follow time context enabled.

7. Add content to panes in your navigation items.

8. Save and publish an experience.