Adding Text to a Dashboard

You can use text tiles to define visual sections on a dashboard and to add text such as headers and descriptions. Text tiles in dashboards are designed to have flexible formatting.

You can add text in two ways to your dashboard:

• Text tile - Rich text/WYSIWYG editing
• Markdown tile - Add and format your text with Markdown/HTML code

To add a text tile to a dashboard:

1. Access the dashboard for edit - for information, see Edit a Dashboard.
2. Click Add > Text. A blank tile appears on the dashboard, with a text field and a toolbar of editing/formatting options.
3. Enter the text you want to use into the text field.

4. Use the buttons on the toolbar to position and format the text.

   

5. Click out of the tile when you've finished adding your text.
6. Resize or reposition the tile as required. For more information, see Reorder and Resize a Tile.
7. Click Save to save the changes to the dashboard. 

To add a Markdown tile to the dashboard:

1. Access the dashboard for edit - for information, see Edit a Dashboard.
2. Click Add > Markdown.

3. In the Add Text window, specify the Title, Subtitle and Body of the text block as required. The elements are all optional.

   Notes

   • Titles and subtitles support some HTML, including links and images.
   • Body text supports a subset of the Markdown markup language - for more information, see Using Markdown (this goes to an external site so we have no responsibility for the content).

   

4. Click Save to save the text box. The Markdown tile is added to the dashboard.
5. Resize or reposition the tile as required. For more information, see Reorder and Resize a Tile.
6. Click Save to save the changes to the dashboard.