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Eric Salituro
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Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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Building and running dashboard playlists

A dashboard playlist is a selection of dashboards that can be played in a looped sequence. Any dashboard can appear in such a playlist. A playlist consists of one or more dashboards displayed in a sequence, separated by a specified interval. They’re typically used to create an automated display cycle of dashboards for unattended venues such as kiosks or operation centers.

Creating a playlist

Before we can start running a playlist, we’ll need to create one. The Playlists page can be found under the Dashboards main menu. Follow these steps:

  1. Under Dashboards on the main menu, select Playlists.
  2. Click New Playlist.
  3. Set a Name for the playlist. You will not be able to save the playlist until you set the Name.
  4. Set the time Interval between dashboards.
  5. Select a dashboard from the Add by title drop-down menu to add a dashboard to the playlist. You can also add tagged dashboards by selecting tags from the Add...
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Eric Salituro

Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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