Adding New Sections
You can add many sections to one dashboard, but only two sections can be placed side by side. Each section is a View or a Text you need to place on the dashboard. Moreover, you can select any view created in any table as the dashboard section.
This topic describes how to make the Text or View sections.
At first you have to open the settings of an existing dashboard or create a new dashboard.
There is the Sections
block displayed under the dashboard form.
To add a section click on the New
button.
Text Section
The Text
section can be used as a heading with a description or comment text on the dashboard. To add a text section:
Click the New
button at the top of the Sections
block.
Select the Text
option and the system will open the following form:
- Heading
- In the
Heading
field enter a text that will be displayed as a heading of the dashboard - Text
- In the
Text
field enter a text that will be displayed under the heading (Tip: If you need additional text formatting, use HTML tags in this field and select theHTML
option below). - Format
- In the
Format
subsection select the necessary text format:HTML
orMarkup
. The Markup options allow formatting operations with text, such as indenting paragraphs, inserting lists, creating headers, and so on. - Second Column
- Select the
Second Column
check box if the text should be displayed in the right column on the dashboard.|
Fill in the form and click Save
to add the section; click Cancel
to discard changes.
View Section
Add the View
section if you want to display a certain View/Report on the dashboard. TeamDesk allows you to choose any of existing views from any table.
To add a View
section:
Click the New
button at the top of the Sections
block.
Select the View
option and the system will open the following form:
- Heading
- In the
Heading
field enter a text that will be displayed at the top of the view. - View
- From the
View
drop-down list select a View that will be used on the dashboard page. - Rows to display
- In the
Rows to display
field specify the number of rows that will be shown in the view (use whole numbers only). - Allowed actions
- Select the
Allowed actions
checkboxes to specify what actions should be applicable to the view. The following options are available:
- New;
- Edit;
- View;
- Delete;
- Mass Delete;
- Print / Export / Send.
If the options are activated, the corresponding buttons will be displayed on the dashboard for the chosen view. Please note, that Allowed actions
specified in view settings dominate on dashboard section settings. For example, if the Edit
action is inactive in a view, it will be inactive automatically in the dashboard section comprising such view.
- Second Column
- Select the
Second Column
check box if the view should be displayed in the right column on the dashboard.
Fill in the form and click Save
to add the section; click Cancel
to discard changes.
The View list in the section form is not limited to the views created in the current table. It includes views of all database tables. Thus under one tab you may display views of different tables placed on the same dashboard page.