Toolbar

The Dashboard Designer toolbar exposes the following options:

•      Create new Dashboard: clicking this button displays the Dashboard Designer Start Page.  A close button is shown to its top right; clicking it removes the overlay from display.  If a dashboard containing unsaved changes is displayed at invocation of Create New, an 'Are You Sure?' dialog is shown, from which you can:

o  Save the changes

o  Abandon the changes

o  Abandon creation of the new Dashboard

•      Open an existing Dashboard: invocation of this option displays the Open Dashboard File System Dialog.  You can navigate accessible folders in the RPI file system to locate the dashboard that you wish to open.  Only dashboard files are shown.  Having located a dashboard, you can click OK or double click it to display it in the Dashboard Designer.  You can also click Cancel to close the File System Dialog without opening a dashboard.

If a dashboard or containing unsaved changes are displayed, you can:

o  Save the changes

o  Abandon the changes

o  Abandon opening the dashboard

•      Save the current Dashboard: this option is disabled when no outstanding changes are present within the dashboard.  If the dashboard has not been saved, Save behaves like Save As....  If dashboard has previously been saved, invocation of this option saves any dashboard changes to the existing dashboard file.

•      Save the current Dashboard as...: invocation of this option displays the Save Dashboard As… File System Dialog, allowing stipulation of the filename to which to save the new dashboard file.