Add a Link Widget to a Dashboard
A Link Widget is capable of executing a single Action when selected (example: Run an Action/One-Step Action). You can also enter a simple URL.
Use the Dashboard Editor to add a Link Widget to a dashboard.
Good to know:
- A Link Widget is highly configurable. Add one or many to a dashboard, then define the Action to run when the link is selected, and how the link looks and behaves on the dashboard (example: text, size, color, background style and gloss, border style, image, alignment, anchoring, layering, and visibility). See Define How a Widget Looks and Behaves on a Dashboard.
- Text, image, and colors can be conditional (Expression-driven).
- See Dashboard Editor Behaviors for tips on working with widgets on dashboards.
To add a Link Widget to a dashboard:
- Open a dashboard in the Dashboard Editor.
- Drag the Link Widget from the Shapes, Etc. tree onto the dashboard.
- Right-click the Link Widget, and then select Widget Properties. Either define the Action to execute when the link is selected, or enter a URL:
- Select Action, and then select the ellipsis button to open the Action Manager, then select the Action to execute.
- If you select a One-Step™ Action, you can either select or clear the Show Progress check box to control whether the progress dialog for the One-Step Action appears while it runs.
- Select Web Link, and then type the URL of the web page that should open.
- Select Action, and then select the ellipsis button to open the Action Manager, then select the Action to execute.
- Define the text to display on the link:
- In the Label text box on the Dashboard Editor toolbar, provide the text to display in the link.
- (Optional) Change the font, font size, font style, font alignment, and text wrap, if needed.
- Define how the Link Widget looks and behaves on the Dashboard (example: Size, alignment, etc.).
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Continue making changes, or select OK to save and close the editor.