Add Text to Dashboards
- Create Perspectives, or have edit access to shared perspectives.
- Security:Edit Dashboardspermission.
You can use text on dashboards to improve how users interact with charts. When you're in edit mode, add text to dashboards to provide:
- Instructions.
- Sections that group charts.
- Summary analysis.
We don't support:
- Mailto links.
- Images.
In view mode, text doesn't change with perspective context or time changes.
- SelectDashboardsfrom the main menu.
- Create or open a perspective.
- From the toolbar, clickEdit.
- From the left panel, dragTextinto the dashboard.
- (Optional) To resize the text frame, drag the corner handles.
- To enter text, click inside the text box.A vertical scroll bar displays when the text wraps beyond the vertical size of the text box.
- (Optional) To format the text, use the toolbar that displays when you click inside the text box.Example:
- Bulleted and numbered lists.
- Text color, size, and style.
- (Optional) ClickInsert linkfrom the text box toolbar to create URL and shared web report links.Example: You can create a link to a transaction report. Selecting the transaction report in view mode opens the report in a new window.
- (Optional) To clear formatting, select text then click theClear Formattingicon.
- In theAppearance Settings, use theShow in Presentation Modeto hide or display the text when the dashboard is inPresentation Mode.