# QA Snapshots

Source: https://help.zira.us/docs/dashboards/qa-snapshots-widget
Summary: Use the QA Snapshots widget to show the latest QA review images from a Vision data source directly on a dashboard.
Updated: 2026-09-29

Use **QA Snapshots** when the dashboard should show the latest QA images without making people leave the page.

This widget is helpful when teams want a quick visual check of recent pallets, recent review outcomes, or the latest QA evidence from one Vision data source.

## Navigation

Open a dashboard, enter edit mode if needed, then choose **Add widget**.

Use **QA Snapshots** when one dashboard should include recent QA images as part of the workflow.

## When to use it

The QA Snapshots widget shows recent images from one selected Vision data source.

Each item can also show lightweight review context such as the result or matched rule summary.

When someone clicks a snapshot, the full review page opens in a full-screen view above the dashboard so it is easy to return.

## Live updates

While the dashboard shows a range that includes now (for example **Today**), the widget follows the
line as it runs:

- Each new pallet's image appears as soon as the device finishes uploading it, usually within a few
  seconds of the pallet passing.

Only the first page updates live. If you page back to older images, they stay put until you return
to the first page. A range fully in the past, such as **Yesterday**, does not change.

## Add the widget

1. Open a dashboard.
2. Click **Add widget**.
3. Choose **QA Snapshots**.

## Configure the widget

When the setup screen opens:

1. enter the widget name
2. select the Vision data source
3. choose how many recent images to show
4. choose **List** or **Gallery**
5. adjust the image size and text size if needed
6. review the preview
7. save the widget

## Choose a display style

Use **List** when:

- you want a compact widget
- the date, result, and rule summary matter most
- the widget needs to fit beside other dashboard cards

Use **Gallery** when:

- visual scanning matters more
- people need larger thumbnails
- the widget should feel more like a visual strip of recent QA activity

## Mark without opening anything

Turn on **Show mark buttons** and the review categories sit on the card — one tap marks the image.

With **Single** display, set **Select crossings** to **On the card**. The board × stringer crossings
are drawn on the snapshot, you tap the ones a defect is in, and pressing a category records exactly
those crops. That turns five steps into two. Leave it on **In a dedicated dialog** to keep picking
them inside the reviewer.

Which one to use depends on your reviewers:

- **Marking on the card** is quickest when the annotation boxes already tell them which crossing is
  wrong and they only need to say so.
- **Opening the snapshot** is better when the call is genuinely close. There the image is full
  resolution and the magnifier is available, and a crossing on the card is only as sharp as the
  card's thumbnail.

## Review snapshots from the dashboard

Selecting a snapshot opens a full-screen reviewer built for judging the image, without leaving the
dashboard.

Hover a snapshot and use the mark icon to add a review mark right there on the tile — it opens just
the **Add review mark** dialog for that image, without opening the reviewer at all.

In the reviewer you can:

- **Magnify small details.** The magnifier shows the frame at the camera's own resolution, which is
  what makes a nail head or a hairline crack readable. It is on by default on a computer. On a
  tablet or phone it starts off — pinch to zoom instead, and the toolbar button is there if you
  want the magnifier as well.
- **Work slice by slice.** On pallet cameras the reviewer can draw the board and stringer crossings
  and let you pick the ones a defect is in. A mark then records exactly which crops you meant, so
  the next person sees the same ones.
- **Step through your filtered list.** The arrows (or `,` and `.`) move through the snapshots the
  widget is already showing, so a defect filter carries straight into the reviewer and keeps going
  past the end of a capture session.
- **See what is already marked.** Existing marks are shown at the top, so an image does not get
  judged twice.
- **Show or hide the detection boxes** and their labels, and switch to a lower-resolution preview
  on a slow connection.

**Back** returns to the dashboard rather than leaving it, and **Back to dashboard** does the same.

Model runs and copying images into a dataset stay on the full **Image Review** page — open it with
the link beside the snapshot's name.

### On a tablet

- **Tap** a crossing to select it.
- **Press and hold** to magnify, then slide your finger to move the magnified view.
- **Pinch** to zoom the image itself, and drag to move around it.

## Tips

- Use a small number of images when the dashboard already has many widgets.
- Use **Gallery** with larger image size when the dashboard is mainly for QA review.
- Place this widget near related **Streaming**, **Data Streaming**, or routing widgets when the same Vision data source is being monitored.
- If people need the widget quickly, ask **AI Dashboard Builder** to create it by naming the data source and the display mode you want.

## Read next

- [AI Dashboard Builder](/docs/dashboards/ai-dashboard-builder) - Ask AI to add or update widgets from a plain-language request.
- [Image Review](/docs/data-sources/image-review) - Open a full QA image review page and leave review marks.
- [Streaming](/docs/dashboards/streaming-widget) - Add live visual context from the same Vision data source.
- [Data Streaming](/docs/dashboards/data-streaming-widget) - Show live values beside the recent QA image list.