A dashboard consists of a number of widgets, each configured as required. No widgets are initially present within a new dashboard. You can click the Add New Widget button to initiate the process of adding a new widget to a dashboard.
When you do, the Add New Widget overlay is shown.
The overlay allows you to add a new or saved unconfigured or pre-built widget to the dashboard. It contains the following:
•Open: this button allows you to add a widget to the dashboard from a file saved to the RPI file system. Clicking the button presents an Add Widget File System Dialog. Only Widget files are displayed therein. You can select a saved widget and click OK to add it to the current dashboard. Note that any changes made to a widget sourced from the file system are not saved back to the persisted file.
•Cancel: removes the overlay from display without adding a widget.
•The initial Widgets section allows you to add the following types of widget:
o Channel Overview
o Chart
o Count Results
o File Approval
o File Type
o News Reader
o Pulses
o Tasks
o Time and Weather
o Twitter Feed
You can also add a Header.
Having elected to build your own widget, a configuration overlay is displayed. Each widget type’s configuration is documented separately.
The subsequent sections allow you to add pre-configured widgets to the dashboard:
•Add Pre-Built Tasks Widget: a series of options are displayed:
o Campaign Execution
o Creative Design
o Audience
o Content
o Orchestration
o Reporting
o Management
•Add Pre-Built File Type Widget
One option per file type (to which the user has access) is displayed. Choosing an option adds a file type widget to the dashboard, which is pre-configured with the selected file type.
•Add Pre-Built Channel Overview Widget
One option per existing channel is selected. Choosing an option adds a channel overview widget to the dashboard, which is pre-configured with the selected channel.
If you elect to add a pre-built widget, it is added immediately to the dashboard without display of its configuration overlay.
Note that the maximum number of widgets and headers that can be added to a dashboard is controlled by system configuration setting MaxDashboardWidgets.
You can re-order the widgets and headers shown within a dashboard using drag and drop. When you do so, shading indicates where the object being moved can be dropped.
A No drop cursor is shown where dropping would be inappropriate.