Add a Button Widget to a Dashboard
Use the Dashboard Editor to add Button Widget to a Dashboard. A Button Widget is capable of executing a single Action when clicked (ex: Run an Action/One-Step Action).
Good to know:
- A Button Widget is highly configurable. Add one or many to a Dashboard, then define the Action to execute when the button is clicked, and how the button looks and behaves on the Dashboard (ex: Text, size, color, background style and gloss, border style, image, alignment, anchoring, layering, and visibility).
- Text, image, and colors can be conditional (Expression-driven).
- See Dashboard Editor Behaviors for tips on working with Widgets on Dashboards.
To add a Button Widget to a Dashboard:
- Open a Dashboard in the Dashboard Editor
- Drag-and-drop the Button Widget from the Shapes, Etc. tree onto the Dashboard.
- Define the Action to execute when the button is clicked:
- Right-click the Button Widget, and then select Widget Properties.
- Click the Ellipses button
to open the Action Manager, then select the Action to execute.
- Define the text to display on the button:
- In the Label text box on the Dashboard Editor toolbar, provide the text to display on the button.
- (Optional) Change the font, font size, font style, font alignment, and text wrap, if needed.
- Define how the Button Widget looks and behaves on the Dashboard (ex: Size, alignment, etc.).
Continue making changes, or click OK to save and close the editor.