Add a Text Widget to a Dashboard

Use the Dashboard Editor to add a Text Widget to a Dashboard.

Good to know:

• A Text Widget is highly configurable. Add one or many to a Dashboard, then define the text, and how the text looks and behaves on the Dashboard (ex: Size, color, background style and gloss, border style, image, alignment, anchoring, layering, and visibility).
• By default, Text Widget text, color, and border style properties come from the defined Dashboard Theme.
• Text and colors can be conditional (Expression-driven). For example, use an Expression to display the current date and time.
• A Text Widget is technically a simple Gauge Widget.
• See Dashboard Editor Behaviors for tips on working with Widgets on Dashboards.

To add a Text Widget to a Dashboard

1. Open a Dashboard in the Dashboard Editor
2. Drag-and-drop the Text Widget from the Shapes, Etc. tree onto the Dashboard.
3. Define the text to display in the Widget:
   1. In the Label text box on the Dashboard Editor toolbar, provide the text to display.
   2. (Optional) Change the font, font size, font style, font alignment, and text wrap, if needed.
4. Define how the Text Widget looks and behaves on the Dashboard (ex: Size, alignment, etc.).

5. Continue making changes, or select OK to save and close the editor.